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Re:Can Nuclear Power Offer a Way Out of the Climate Crisis? by xupybd on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @10:39PM (#21998360)
The economics of nuclear are good but not as good as you're implying.

It takes a long time and a lot of money to start earning on a nuclear plant. Given the risks involved it's not that easy to build one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbeJIwF1pVY

I don't think firing nuclear waste into space would be wise either. The risk of that blowing up on launch is high and the fall out from that would be a disaster.

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Re:Can Nuclear Power Offer a Way Out of the Climate Crisis? by keanzu on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @10:50PM (#21998414)
Just imagine 10 years after you've built your nice new nuclear plant and someone makes a breakthrough on some form of cheap reliable energy. The current development focus on alternative forms of energy makes nuclear high risk purely due to the payoff period.
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Re:Can Nuclear Power Offer a Way Out of the Climate Crisis? by crystaldev on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @11:00PM (#21998459)
In the short term nuclear waste should be stored in remote sites on the earth, in the future it should all be moved to space by elevator rather than launch.
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Re:Can Nuclear Power Offer a Way Out of the Climate Crisis? by keanzu on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @11:28PM (#21998575)
Nuclear waste is a non-issue.

All of the used fuel ever produced by the commercial nuclear industry since the late 1950s would cover a football field to a depth of less than 10 yards.

https://www.nei.org/fundamentals/nuclear-waste

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