Comment on Bill Gates-backed nuclear contender Terra Power aims to build dozens of UK reactors

• FredericChopin_@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Tell that to France.

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  • agressivelyPassive@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Really?

    The country that has extremely old reactors, that need to shut down, because the rivers got too hot from the cooling water?

    The country that spend billions on building a single new reactor?

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    • FredericChopin_@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yeah really. 63% of their power is from nuclear.

      Sure they cost a lot of money to build but they’re clean and safe.

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• TenderfootGungi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The goal of several of these new companies is to build small modular plants that are cookie cutter instead of individual boutique designs. That should bring cost down substantially.

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  • IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s the opposite. Nuclear plants were built as large as possible because that was the only way that made any kind of financial sense. SMRs are a waste of money.

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  • Yendor@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The Westinghouse AP1000 was a modular design approved in 2004. The US started building one in 2010 and just finished this year (well, it’s not actually finished yet, but the first reactor is now online).

    I think China was the only country to build one in less than a decade - and it’s much easier to perform public works when you’re a authoritarian government who doesn’t have to deal with public or environmental concerns.

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  • agressivelyPassive@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Well, then show me any viable concept. Just one. Not an “experimental protoype”. An actual concept, that is even roughly comparable in cost to currently deployed systems.

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    • zer0@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Here’s a brand new concept developed by scientists that will drastically lower emissions: ban private jets

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• sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Prepare for downvotes from the nuclear bros.

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  • agressivelyPassive@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah, those idiots just love to wank each other about it.

    And I’m sure, 99% of those guys also have very strong opinions on Crypto…

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    • Womble@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Hi, I’m a physicist who believes that nuclear power is the most realistic option of moving ourselves off fossil fuels, without the astronomical cost and untested technology that would be required in order to create a majority intermittent grid.

      I do also have strong feelings about crypto, mostly about how much of a incredible waste of resources it is and how disgusting it is that the obvious scam nature of most of it hasnt been clamped down on by governments

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      • sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        without the astronomical cost and untested technology

        Well, both of those assertions are just wrong. May have held water a couple of decades ago though.

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      • IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        If you’re a physicist why are you stating what you “believe”? I would’ve thought facts and evidence would be more appealing than feels. Of course facts and evidence point to nuclear being a massive waste of everyone’s money when far cheaper alternatives are now available. Maybe that’s why?

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    • FredericChopin_@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You might have a better discussion if you leave out the insults, your preconceived notions of people, and well not being a dick.

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