UK's first small nuclear power station to be built in north Wales

Re:UK's first small nuclear power station to be built in nor... by MagicMoonlight on Sunday November 16, 2025 @08:24AM (#45944958)

Hydrogen is the worst possible fuel. It's the least dense material in existence so you need a ton of it. It has to be made from either cracking polluting materials, or using a huge amount of electricity. It is really difficult to store and really flammable.

Nuclear is endless clean energy. Why do people like you keep ruining everything? If it wasn't for you, we'd have had full nuclear by 1980. No oil problems, no terrorist states, no dubai.

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Re:UK's first small nuclear power station to be built in nor... by lostlogin on Sunday November 16, 2025 @12:09PM (#45946610)

> Nuclear is endless clean energy.

The UK hasn’t had any nuclear waste problems?

It might be the solution but pretending it’s perfect is how we got here.

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Re:UK's first small nuclear power station to be built in nor... by pfdietz on Sunday November 16, 2025 @08:30AM (#45945000)

This would be green hydrogen. Sure, it has low density, but underground storage is pretty cheap at scale. Yes, it's flammable, but that can be handled, and is handled routinely -- the world currently produces and consumes 700 cubic kilometers (at STP) of hydrogen per year.

The huge advantage of hydrogen here is that a gas turbine power plant might cost $600/kW, a tiny fraction of the cost of a nuclear power plant. So if you have a need for a backup plant whose cost will be dominated by amortization of its fixed cost, hydrogen beats nuclear.

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