How Innovative Is China in Nuclear Power?

Re:How Innovative Is China in Nuclear Power? by chickenbig on Monday June 17, 2024 @04:07PM (#40710460)

So the link shows in 2001 nuclear generated 482.92 TWh; in 2022 wind plus solar generated 485.12 TWh. Granted coal was down in that time but gas was pretty much flat (except for 2022 when there were extenuating circumstances).

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Re:How Innovative Is China in Nuclear Power? by cinntaile on Monday June 17, 2024 @04:59PM (#40711003)

The claim was that Germany has now become dependent on carbon based energy sources, the link I posted shows it has always been dependent on carbon based energy sources. The dependence hasn't changed all that much in the last 20 years, it went down a bit but not much.

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Re:How Innovative Is China in Nuclear Power? by cubefox on Monday June 17, 2024 @05:32PM (#40711310)

It probably would have gone down if nuclear energy wasn't outlawed.

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Re:How Innovative Is China in Nuclear Power? by cinntaile on Wednesday June 19, 2024 @04:25PM (#40732068)

It did go down, just not much. Would it have gone down more if nuclear was still on the table? Yes, that's very likely.

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Re:How Innovative Is China in Nuclear Power? by imtringued on Monday June 17, 2024 @08:13PM (#40712714)

That is primary energy. Only one third of that can actually be turned into electricity.

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Re:How Innovative Is China in Nuclear Power? by chickenbig on Tuesday June 18, 2024 @02:21AM (#40714604)

Yes, I realised that while having trouble getting to sleep last night. France produces around 350-400TWh from nuclear, so that should have made me question the number I quoted.

So the graph is a bit misleading in that various qualities of energy are lumped together.

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