Intellectuals urge Germany to keep nuclear plants online

Re:Intellectuals urge Germany to keep nuclear plants online by baq on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @04:48PM (#28857536)

And the elephant in the room: we don’t have 40 years. We need those reactors today, at most in 5 or so years. Afterwards, they are too late.

I’ve yet to see a reactor selling power to the grid 5 years after construction approval.

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Re:Intellectuals urge Germany to keep nuclear plants online by mistrial9 on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @08:54PM (#28859360)

> We need those reactors today

conservation and efficiency are huge opportunities being squandered right now. "We need McDonalds right now" is almost similar -- superficial and demanding. Spend your own money on nukes then, tell everyone about how great they are

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Re:Intellectuals urge Germany to keep nuclear plants online by baq on Thursday October 14, 2021 @03:30AM (#28861489)

i'm not pro-nuclear, i'm not anti-nuclear either. the current large scale designs are completely impractical and pointless, unless you also want to build nuclear weapons.

there are maintenance-less designs which generate power for 30 years perhaps, after which they can be dug out of their pits and shipped to the factory for refueling/reprocessing - or glassed and buried. smaller, closer to power recipients, 100% passively cooled in case of scram, like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshiba_4S. i'm afraid that ship has sailed, though, and the coal/natgas/large scale battery storage have their own non-trivial challenges.

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