Nuclear power is the best climate-change solution

Re:Nuclear power is the best climate-change solution by throw0101a on Saturday November 06, 2021 @10:31AM (#29130482)

> Nuclear has the huge problem of not being available for another decade (because that's how long it takes to build plants).

At the very least we can stop shutting down the plants we currently have.

There is a finite amount of infrastructure that can be built at any one time: instead of shutting down nukes and building renewables to take their place, we should be shutting down fossil fuel plants and having renewable take over them.

Once all the fossil fuel plants are gone we can talk about nuclear at that point.

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Re:Nuclear power is the best climate-change solution by pvaldes on Sunday November 07, 2021 @04:36AM (#29137841)

Running old 70's plants until they crumble and fail with "the mother of all messes" does not seem like an economic or sensible option.

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Re:Nuclear power is the best climate-change solution by throw0101a on Sunday November 07, 2021 @12:00PM (#29141181)

You're not wrong, but good luck trying to get Gen III(+) and IV plants approved.

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Re:Nuclear power is the best climate-change solution by stavros on Saturday November 06, 2021 @01:04PM (#29131873)

Hey, no argument from me there.

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