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Re:Climate policies that achieved major emission reductions by thinkcontext on Thursday August 22, 2024 @09:44PM (#41325632)
Too bad neither Europe nor the US seems capable of building reactors at reasonable cost. Even China which is building reactors the fastest is only projected to have nuclear account for single digit percentages of its electric consumption for decades.
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Re:Climate policies that achieved major emission reductions by _Microft on Thursday August 22, 2024 @10:10PM (#41325706)
Wasn’t there news not long ago that China has been building solar power (peak capacity) with an equivalent power of five nuclear power plants per week? Even accounting for much lower cumulative output, this is far more than they have in the pipeline for nuclear power.
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Re:Climate policies that achieved major emission reductions by adrianN on Friday August 23, 2024 @12:07AM (#41326101)
Most countries investing in nuclear do so in part to fund a domestic nuclear industry so that they can at least partly privatize the cost of a nuclear arms program. Nuclear is too expensive to be competitive without governmental support.
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Re:Climate policies that achieved major emission reductions by obscurette on Friday August 23, 2024 @12:41AM (#41326224)
China is building whatever energy sources it can. In amount it can. https://www.npr.org/2023/03/02/1160441919/china-is-building-...
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