Comment on Solar power expected to dominate electricity generation by 2050—even without more ambitious climate policies

• vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  If you put economics before the environment then sure, nuclear’s not viable, never was.

  Wait what? Surely nuclear gets less viable if you factor in the cost of cleaning up after yourself.

  And oil’s only viable because of mass subsidies and tax exemptions.

  That, and massive externalization.

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  • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Those molten salt reactors can run on what the current reactors create as nuclear waste. They actually help with the cleanup process by breaking the radioactive waste down to a few very short lived ions that cease to be radioactive quite quickly. The other nice part about them is that you can’t make weapons with them.

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    • frezik@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’m in favor of subsidizing nuclear reactors that can reuse waste. That’s a better idea than the current strategy of letting it sit around, or the potential future of burying it and hoping nobody digs it up again millennia from now.

      There is little other reason to bother with nuclear anymore.

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    • vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’m familiar with the technology. It’s great.

      It won’t get built because you can’t make money off it without running the risk of government changing its mind as soon as you’re done building the thing.

      See also, theme park Kalkar.

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