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Re:Sweden approves plan to bury spent nuclear fuel for 100k ... by chendii on Thursday January 27, 2022 @03:16PM (#30105818)
I'd love to know what cost they have put for 100k of storage of nuclear waste. Talk about intergenerational debt. Surely once storage costs are factored into nuclear energy, renewables are much much more cost effective, without all the risks of nuclear waste spilling out at some point in the next 100k years?!?!
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Re:Sweden approves plan to bury spent nuclear fuel for 100k ... by lm28469 on Thursday January 27, 2022 @03:23PM (#30105951)
> renewables are much much more cost effective

It's not a cost issue, it's an "intermittent and non storable" issue.

We don't need theories just look at Germany right now... Their last two nuclear reactors (max output 4GW) often produce more than their entire sun+wind system (max output 122GW)

https://mobile.twitter.com/fmbreon/status/148058947971495936...

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Re:Sweden approves plan to bury spent nuclear fuel for 100k ... by pydry on Thursday January 27, 2022 @05:32PM (#30107893)
They also have 6 GW of pumped water storage and interconnects to countries with 20GW more, with 8TWh of storage in total.

https://www.hydropower.org/country-profiles/germany

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