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Re:Swiss parliament lifts ban on new nuclear power plants by Handrail on Thursday June 18, 2026 @09:56PM (#48594007)
It's not clean though? It requires massive amounts of mining and refining to even get the fuel, and it's no more renewable than fossiles
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Re:Swiss parliament lifts ban on new nuclear power plants by DarkUranium on Thursday June 18, 2026 @11:08PM (#48594411)
If you include Uranium in the oceans, we have about 4.5 billion years of fuel.

It's no less renewable than the Sun.

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Re:Swiss parliament lifts ban on new nuclear power plants by nxy on Thursday June 18, 2026 @10:09PM (#48594086)
In general, “clean” as in zero carbon and air pollution
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Re:Swiss parliament lifts ban on new nuclear power plants by Moldoteck on Saturday June 20, 2026 @06:39AM (#48608156)
It requires least amount of mining vs alternatives, where did you get this weird false narrative https://ourworldindata.org/low-carbon-technologies-need-far-... ?
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