Re:A Pretty Visualisation of the European Power Grid (2022)
by preisschild on Friday November 29, 2024 @09:02AM
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> nuclear power is super expensive
That is debatable, nuclear power can be really cheap when managed correctly. See for example Ontario, Canada or France during the 70s-90s.
Many nuclear power plants can have life times of more than 8 decades and only the initial build and licensing is the expansive part, so if you average the cost over the total life time it is rather cheap.
If its so unsafe, why has there not been a single major accident with used fuel from civilian nuclear power plants? We have been using hundreds of NPPs for decades, yet not a single fatality.
The truth is, nuclear waste can be and is managed safely.
That is debatable, nuclear power can be really cheap when managed correctly. See for example Ontario, Canada or France during the 70s-90s.
Many nuclear power plants can have life times of more than 8 decades and only the initial build and licensing is the expansive part, so if you average the cost over the total life time it is rather cheap.
https://www.iea.org/reports/projected-costs-of-generating-el...
> relies on finite uranium resources
https://whatisnuclear.com/nuclear-sustainability.html
> there is no safe solution to store the waste
If its so unsafe, why has there not been a single major accident with used fuel from civilian nuclear power plants? We have been using hundreds of NPPs for decades, yet not a single fatality.
The truth is, nuclear waste can be and is managed safely.
See:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_cask_storage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KBS-3