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Re:White House eyes subsidies for nuclear plants to help mee... by politician on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @02:54PM (#27054110)
Yeah, but per the Musk quote, I bet you really could pack enough solar panels into the Chernobyl exclusion zone to overtake the power produced by the plant itself.
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Re:White House eyes subsidies for nuclear plants to help mee... by vidarh on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @03:40PM (#27054658)
Quite possibly. But that is the only plant in the world with an exclusion zone that big, so it doesn't generalize. As such it's meaningless.

It's likely to remain the only one with an exclusion zone that big given what we have learned about how low the lethality of Chernobyl was.

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Re:White House eyes subsidies for nuclear plants to help mee... by natch on Sunday May 09, 2021 @08:33PM (#27101311)
I don’t think the quote was talking about post-accident Chernobyl though.
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