Re:Nuclear power is too slow
by pydry on Friday December 16, 2022 @11:16AM
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>You’d think if the future depended on it, build times could be reduced.
That seems to be what Japan did until Fukushima went boom.
>Instead we’ve been building more coal plants.
That seems to be what Japan did after Fukushima went boom.
To be fair, coal has quite widely replaced all around the world in the last 8 years by a mix of wind, solar and gas. It's now almost as unattractive to investors as nuclear power is.
That seems to be what Japan did until Fukushima went boom.
>Instead we’ve been building more coal plants.
That seems to be what Japan did after Fukushima went boom.
To be fair, coal has quite widely replaced all around the world in the last 8 years by a mix of wind, solar and gas. It's now almost as unattractive to investors as nuclear power is.