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Re:White House eyes subsidies for nuclear plants to help mee... by axoltl on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @11:38AM (#27051287)
We have come a long way since the RBMK reactors in use at Chernobyl. Generation III reactors are significantly safer than the older nuclear reactors. They are now passively safe, in that they shut themselves down without operator intervention.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_III_reactor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive_nuclear_safety

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Re:White House eyes subsidies for nuclear plants to help mee... by r00fus on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @01:56PM (#27053274)
My major beef with nuclear is the water impact [1], not waste fuel - latter of which we have good solutions to. Not to mention exclusion zones.

If all Nuclear had desalination, it still wouldn't offset it's waste heat capture problem which ruins downstream ecologies.

[1] https://monarchpartnership.co.uk/nuclear-power-water-consump...

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Re:White House eyes subsidies for nuclear plants to help mee... by rangoon626 on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @11:39AM (#27051307)
You are correct. And there’s other good research going on too, but people like this won’t hear it.
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