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Re:Nuclear energy key to decarbonising Europe, says EESC by iknowstuff on Friday December 12, 2025 @03:09PM (#46248257)
How is it stalling anything if it offers a cheaper and faster build than nuclear? If you need to build 1GW and want it anytime in the next 2 decades, you sure as hell don’t choose nuclear. You either do natural gas or renewables these days. Those are the only competitive sources of energy.
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Re:Nuclear energy key to decarbonising Europe, says EESC by mpweiher on Friday December 12, 2025 @03:18PM (#46248350)
You actually need energy even when the sun doesn't shine.

And you are incorrect: renewables are not competitive without heavy subsidies and preferential treatment, such as being allowed to shift the cost of their intermittency onto the reliable producers.

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