Europe Is Losing Nuclear Power Just When It Needs Energy

Re:Europe Is Losing Nuclear Power Just When It Needs Energy by throwawaylinux on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @11:00PM (#30173530)

Who is they? And are you talking about the total generating capacity? 3 nuclear plants per year is laughable compared to what needs to be done. It's barely enough to maintain the greenhouse gas footprint let alone reduce it significantly.

And nuclear would never happen thanks to the anti-nuclear / pro-fossil-fuel "green" lobby. I'm not saying it would, I'm saying it's been killed and along with it the climate by these lunatics.

Big coal is happy though, they're making some astounding profits in the past year or two, wind turbines or no wind turbines.

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Re:Europe Is Losing Nuclear Power Just When It Needs Energy by bryanlarsen on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @07:31AM (#30176619)

That's exactly my question. In this magical world where nuclear power regulations are similar to coal power regulations, who is going to spend the tens of trillions of dollars necessary to partially solve the climate change crisis with nuclear plant?

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Re:Europe Is Losing Nuclear Power Just When It Needs Energy by throwawaylinux on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @07:54PM (#30186845)

The same people who spent money to provide much of France's electricity with nuclear. The ones who built Japanese and American and Russian and Canadian and Chinese nuclear plants.

The rambling anti-nuclear / pro-carbon rhetoric somehow handwaves about how you can't do that and how renewables will magically solve everything. They were wrong 50 years ago, they were wrong 20 years ago, they're wrong now. Nuclear power still provides as much electricity as wind and solar combined. Today.

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