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Why make it binary? Nuclear power plants need less semiconductors per Joule of electricity produced than solar panels.
So obviously they don't 'remove' the need for semiconductors. But they decrease it ever so slightly compared to solar power.
Just to be clear: the dangers per Joule from the whole lifecycle of both solar power and nuclear power are both really, really small.
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Why make it binary? Nuclear power plants need less semiconductors per Joule of electricity produced than solar panels.
So obviously they don't 'remove' the need for semiconductors. But they decrease it ever so slightly compared to solar power.
Just to be clear: the dangers per Joule from the whole lifecycle of both solar power and nuclear power are both really, really small.