Italy moves to reverse anti-nuclear stance

Re:Italy moves to reverse anti-nuclear stance by hocuspocus on Tuesday March 04, 2025 @08:29AM (#43254286)

Are you joking? Renewables mean one order of magnitude more raw materials imports from China and Chinese operated mining in unstable African countries.

With some work and investment European nuclear fuel supply could be 100% free from Russia, which anyway is peanuts compared to billions spent on Russian LNG. Uranium ore can come from Canada, Kazakhstan and Australia, not only African countries.

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Re:Italy moves to reverse anti-nuclear stance by ViewTrick1002 on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @06:58AM (#43265462)

So what happens to your existing installations when China stops selling renewables?

They will keep working for years as you find new suppliers for spare parts. When the reach EOL you need to find a new supplier.

In the meantime the already existing required firming capacity might be run a bit harder to manage any shortfall.

But in the nuclear cult that is equivalent to still not being able to decouple Europe from the Russian nuclear industry 3 years into the war.

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