China to supercharge uranium race with 150 new nuclear reactors

Re:China to supercharge uranium race with 150 new nuclear re... by whimsicalism on Monday November 08, 2021 @03:10PM (#29153624)

The US has been responsible for a large plurality of the emissions of CO2 into the atmosphere. China is now the largest emitter, but it's not particularly close if you integrate that function over time.

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Re:China to supercharge uranium race with 150 new nuclear re... by reissbaker on Monday November 08, 2021 @04:01PM (#29154214)

Looking at the data, it doesn't seem like the US transitioning to nuclear would have made climate change a "minor" problem: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-co-emissions-by-re...

For nearly all of the time before China outstripped the US, the EU (if you include EU-27) was a larger contributor than the US anyway. And much of the early US emissions edge came before nuclear power was invented. Global warming itself was poorly understood prior to the 1960s: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/discovery-of-glob...

A transition to nuclear would have helped, certainly! But climate change would not be "minor."

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