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Re:New nuclear plant at Sizewell set for green light by jnxx on Saturday October 31, 2020 @01:42PM (#24953520)
> The point is that nuclear is the only known geographically independent way of generating carbon free energy that isn't subject to intermittency.

For one, it needs a cool river with lots of water available for cooling. Which with climate change is, even in the UK, becoming less ubiquitous than it was so far.

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Re:New nuclear plant at Sizewell set for green light by manfredo on Saturday October 31, 2020 @02:19PM (#24953860)
It needs a source of water to run heat exchangers, but it doesn't need to be fresh water. It can run on seawater (which can also be used for desalination with the waste heat), or on wastewater.
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