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Re:Why are nuclear power construction costs so high? by zackees on Thursday June 09, 2022 @03:05PM (#31685410)
Post like this make me hopeful that rational minds will prevail and we get clean abundant nuclear energy.

It’s becoming clear that the climate alarmism isn't about solutions or even a tax, but forcing us to purchase “carbon credits” from Saudi Arabia and other sovereign wealth funds ranked high in the ESG index.

Re:Why are nuclear power construction costs so high? by throw827474737 on Thursday June 09, 2022 @03:14PM (#31685520)
Posts like this make me just despair... we couldn't even scale up this to the world wide needs, but if we could the waste would be huge.

Only thing that could get us out there and would only make sense is going renewables everywhere in Manhatten-like projects, but that won't happen because people argueing like this got us into this situation where there is allegedly only a binary choice between failed and failed..

Re:Why are nuclear power construction costs so high? by towaway15463 on Thursday June 09, 2022 @03:33PM (#31685749)
> the waste would be huge

Isn’t the opposite true? Nuclear fuel has the highest energy density of any fuel source by a gigantic margin. The entire US stockpile of waste since the 50s is only 83,000 metric tonnes and could fit on a single football field stacked less than 10 yards deep. If we could all stop clutching our pearls about scary radiation and just agree to store the spent fuel deep underground there’d be absolutely no danger from it. Add to that the fact you can recycle the fuel and get even more energy out of it.

Re:Why are nuclear power construction costs so high? by zackees on Sunday June 12, 2022 @07:13PM (#31719150)
It's easier than this, the waste can be burned in the new generators.

So building more nuclear would actually fix the nuclear waste problem.

Re:Why are nuclear power construction costs so high? by ncmncm on Thursday June 09, 2022 @07:26PM (#31688249)
Energy density has proven so totally meaningless as a proxy for cost that even mentioning it as a plus is disingenuous at best.
Re:Why are nuclear power construction costs so high? by towaway15463 on Thursday June 09, 2022 @08:46PM (#31688739)
I’m talking about waste, not cost.
Re:Why are nuclear power construction costs so high? by ClumsyPilot on Thursday June 09, 2022 @04:18PM (#31686242)
"It’s becoming clear that the climate alarmism isn't about solutions or even a tax, but forcing us to purchase “carbon credits”

Every half educated climate activist knows thay carbon credits are a fraud perpetuates by wallstreet types to pretend they are doing something when they are not.

This post is breathtakingly uninformed. I suggest calling it climate illiteracy

Re:Why are nuclear power construction costs so high? by zackees on Sunday June 12, 2022 @07:18PM (#31719186)
> Every half educated climate activist knows thay carbon credits are a fraud perpetuates by wallstreet types to pretend they are doing something when they are not.

The problem with this statement is that the carbon credits ARE being rolled out AS the solution.

Re:Why are nuclear power construction costs so high? by logifail on Thursday June 09, 2022 @04:04PM (#31686081)
> ESG

Is that the same ESG that Exxon is part of but Tesla isn't?