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Re:How do you make safe, cheap nuclear reactors? Bury them a... by oezi on Tuesday August 27, 2024 @01:55PM (#41370604)
You mean the solar panel?

+ it is decentralized, cheap, low tech, low waste, easy to scale.

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Re:How do you make safe, cheap nuclear reactors? Bury them a... by fsflover on Tuesday August 27, 2024 @02:14PM (#41370853)
> low waste

Did I miss some big news about easy recycling solar panels?

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Re:How do you make safe, cheap nuclear reactors? Bury them a... by oezi on Tuesday August 27, 2024 @02:40PM (#41371188)
Solar waste is similar to Nuclear per energy created:

https://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image/1-s2.0-S09596526220213...

Much lower than fossils. Magnitudes lower than municipal waste or other e-waste.

From https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S095965262...

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Re:How do you make safe, cheap nuclear reactors? Bury them a... by fsflover on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @08:05AM (#41378556)
Thanks, TIL.
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Re:How do you make safe, cheap nuclear reactors? Bury them a... by realusername on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @02:21AM (#41376539)
> decentralized

If you basically ignore that they are all built in China. I'd say that's the most centralized mainstream technology to generate electricity by far, it's all down to a single country. We could even say it's down to a single person even, the power being so vertical in China.

> easy to scale.

Well if you don't care about how you are going to pass the winter maybe.

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