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Re:Deep Decarbonization: A Realistic Way Forward on Climate ... by cowmoo728 on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @10:50AM (#22170439)
1. huge bureaucratic hurdles

2. huge political hurdles

3. no ROI and no clean energy without billions of up-front investment and 20 years

I think we should have started spending hundreds of billions on nuclear power plants yesterday, but now we have to walk and chew gum at the same time. If it really does take 20 years to build enough nuclear power plants (construction that will be fueled by carbon) we have to make some other clean energy investments RIGHT NOW that will soften the blow until we finish building those reactors.

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Re:Deep Decarbonization: A Realistic Way Forward on Climate ... by BurningFrog on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @11:07AM (#22170623)
1 & 2 are political decisions, fueled by "nucleophobia".

If it can solve global warming in 20 years, that's an easy win to take. There is no emergency forcing anything faster, and I doubt that it's even possible to find a cure (that isn't worse than the disease) that works faster anyway.

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Re:Deep Decarbonization: A Realistic Way Forward on Climate ... by class4behavior on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @11:58AM (#22171245)
> 1 & 2 are political decisions, fueled by "nucleophobia".

You say nuclear isn't dangerous because of all the safety measures, yet here you're qualifying those safety measures as mere overreaction.

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Re:Deep Decarbonization: A Realistic Way Forward on Climate ... by aYsY4dDQ2NrcNzA on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @12:07PM (#22171322)
> If it can solve global warming

Not to be pedantic, but nothing is going to solve it. We're talking about efforts to mitigate it.

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Re:Deep Decarbonization: A Realistic Way Forward on Climate ... by baddox on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @11:48AM (#22171103)
I thought it’s more just that nuclear power plants aren’t economically or politically viable any more, since wealthy governments are no longer subsidizing them with their massive and growing nuclear weapons programs.
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Re:Deep Decarbonization: A Realistic Way Forward on Climate ... by wang_li on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @11:07AM (#22170628)
Nuclear has huge hurdles and long implementation times because of hysterical anti-nuclear activists. It's not inherent in the engineering. If we care about climate change, it needs to be acknowledged that the activists created artificial delays and those should be removed forthwith.
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Re:Deep Decarbonization: A Realistic Way Forward on Climate ... by bryanlarsen on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @11:49AM (#22171112)
Even China takes >5 years to build a nuclear plant. China normally builds non-controversial infrastructure 3X as fast as the US, so by that rule of thumb a nuclear plant would take 15 years in the US, and longer if you don't get rid of the anti-nuclear activists.
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