EU court rules nuclear energy is clean energy

Re:EU court rules nuclear energy is clean energy by 9dev on Friday September 12, 2025 @03:29PM (#45225742)

If you factor in all the cost usually externalised in nuclear power, it’s often a lot more expensive than people realise. Decommissioning nuclear waste and old reactors is a huge, time-consuming, and thus extremely expensive operation.

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Re:EU court rules nuclear energy is clean energy by beeflet on Friday September 12, 2025 @04:17PM (#45226281)

Nuclear waste is a problem caused by activists preventing disposal sites like yucca mountain from being built

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Re:EU court rules nuclear energy is clean energy by BrtByte on Saturday September 13, 2025 @02:10AM (#45229729)

Yep, the "nuclear waste problem" is 90% political, not technical

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Re:EU court rules nuclear energy is clean energy by 9dev on Saturday September 13, 2025 @05:02PM (#45235279)

That doesn't change its cost in the slightest, unless you have a solution for some part of the population not agreeing with you

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Re:EU court rules nuclear energy is clean energy by mpweiher on Friday September 12, 2025 @03:39PM (#45225853)

This turns out not to be the case, and all these supposedly "externalized" costs are actually included in the price of electricity produced by nuclear reactors.

For example in Switzerland, all of that still allows full production costs of 4,34 Rappen (with a profit).

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Re:EU court rules nuclear energy is clean energy by tcfhgj on Saturday September 13, 2025 @02:41AM (#45229870)

In France they aren't, Germany neither

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Re:EU court rules nuclear energy is clean energy by mpweiher on Saturday September 13, 2025 @03:42AM (#45230125)

Wrong on both counts.

The only wrinkle is that when the German government made electricity production from nuclear power illegal, it had to take over some of those responsibilities, for obvious reasons.

It also took over the money that had been saved up thus far, which is almost certainly more than needed to cover the costs. Well unless those costs are driven up to infinity with ever more creative mechanisms by politicians.

But that's a political problem.

Finland just built a site for around €1 billion.

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Re:EU court rules nuclear energy is clean energy by throwaway2037 on Saturday September 13, 2025 @04:58AM (#45230541)

    > Finland just built a site for around €1 billion.

I am confused. Are you talking about reactor #3 from Olkiluoto? Even the initial estimate from 2005 was 3B EUR.

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Re:EU court rules nuclear energy is clean energy by mpweiher on Saturday September 13, 2025 @06:01AM (#45230819)

No, about the Onkalo nuclear storage facility.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230613-onkalo-has-finla...

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Re:EU court rules nuclear energy is clean energy by tcfhgj on Saturday September 13, 2025 @02:07PM (#45234070)

it is not wrong, both countries subsidized nuclear power

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