Re:Nuclear power is too slow
by bottlepalm on Friday December 16, 2022 @03:50PM
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Maybe if they’ve been maturing that experimental design for 36 years then you’d have a point, but they haven’t so you don’t.
And I'd blame anti-nuclear folks for keeping nuclear less safe than it could be, even though it's already one of the least dangerous energy sources in existence
Re:Nuclear power is too slow
by bottlepalm on Saturday December 17, 2022 @07:06AM
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It’s the government not putting money into R&D across the board.
Oh and it’s ridiculously dangerous to the point everything around it must be super protected and over engineered.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experimental_Breeder_Reactor_I...
Most reactors today are older or based on older designs, but this is largely for regulatory reasons, not because we don’t have the technology.
(And even these older reactors are among our safest energy sources: https://ourworldindata.org/safest-sources-of-energy)