Re:Canadian provinces band together to develop nuclear react...
by arkh on Monday December 02, 2019 @03:29AM
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> Fission has been in development for many decades.
You're thinking of fusion.
Reading the comments here from France where 80% production is nuclear with a nuclear waste reprocessing site it feels like the USA problem has more to do with local regulations than technology.
Re:Canadian provinces band together to develop nuclear react...
by chefkoch on Monday December 02, 2019 @04:47AM
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And even they struggle to come up with replacements for their agying fleet of reactors.
Re:Canadian provinces band together to develop nuclear react...
by Krasnol on Monday December 02, 2019 @05:11AM
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Oh yeah France our lovely neighbour with the rotting fleet of "should have been turned off" reactors underreporting accidents and an deficitary agency managing it all while the politicians chuckle it all off due to having slept on the renewable front. Yes, yes. It's great. If you don't blow half of the continent into a radioactive paradies one day, you'll end up being overthrown by some yellow vested nutjobs who will have to pay more taxes because the money for this ridiculously subsided energy project including the waste "management" (hello Russia) has to come from somewhere and decommissioning is not even priced in yet.
PS. Winter is coming. Time to buy some energy from Germany again...
What an understatement. Let's quote one of the sources there:
> But the project never began the mandatory, lengthy and extremely costly process of gaining approval by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
> This would include a site license, which takes tens of millions of dollars and several years, as well as a design permit. No design of this type has ever been approved, though one other has made it through the first step of the process, which took about six years.
So they were far away from "going to build" there.
> I've been saying for a few years now that green energy only advocates are basically on the side of coal and natural gas plants
Yeah we heard you. It's a quite popular tactic in this "last scream of nuclear" advertisement. In the same generalistic way the evil green energy only advocates could say that you are an ignorant shill.
There is nobody on the side of coal who wants green energy and natural gas or gas as battery for renewables is not the same thing as coal...
Fission has been in development for many decades. Eating up money and not coming up with a solution. So please...tone it down. Nuclear is expensive, dangerous and most of the countries on this planet have no space or (economic) means to make the waste disappear.