Progress has been limited on Germany's shift from nuclear to renewables

Re:Progress has been limited on Germany's shift from nuclear... by hef19898 on Tuesday May 14, 2019 @02:14PM (#19912191)

Well, there actually is some unreasonable view on nuclear. Especially in Germany. Doesn't change the fact that long term we should get rid of it. The storage of the waste is just to tricky and when not if something goes wrong we talk about serious damage.

That we should IMHO get rid of coal earlier isn't exclusive, so.

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Re:Progress has been limited on Germany's shift from nuclear... by Gondolin on Tuesday May 14, 2019 @05:25PM (#19914039)

Yes long term we should get rid of it (for fusion), but in short term the priority is climate change. And nuclear fision is a tremendous asset for climate change. There are still huge challenge of course, and we are unfortunately not at all on course to tackle them, but depriving ourselves of nuclear is only going to make things worse.

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Re:Progress has been limited on Germany's shift from nuclear... by atemerev on Tuesday May 14, 2019 @02:50PM (#19912624)

Today's "waste" is tomorrow's fuel for breeder reactors. We don't need to store waste; we need to burn it.

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Re:Progress has been limited on Germany's shift from nuclear... by sonnyblarney on Tuesday May 14, 2019 @03:40PM (#19913123)

Nuclear plants do not 'blow up' this is simply total distortion of reality.

There are ways to help solve the waste issues, and ways to make plants safer.

Given the near infinite latent power in nuclear, and the fact that it's Co2 free ... we should probably be considering this strongly and putting a lot of effort into researching it.

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