SapphironZA

And try not to die from the dodgy meat you were forced to eat, becuase its the only meat you have seen in the past 3 months.

Now if only we can aim the “killdozer crazies” at the right targets.

Scale has always been a problem with nuclear.

Fission is far from dead. It still the most compact power source with the lowest environmental impact.

The problems come in is that they all seem to be treated as one-off projects, which is costly and less safe than an approach at scale.

The cost of a reactor on a nuclear submarine is actually cheaper than a terrestrial one, despite being more complex, because when they build them, they build 20 at a time.

Also, if you look at recent construction of fossil fuel power plants, they are also largely overbudget and late. For the same reasons as with nuclear.

The best solution has always been a mix of renewables and nuclear due to their different strengths.

Much of that has to do with the age of the nuclear fleet.

China is building reactors with significantly lower costs than the ones built in the west 40-60 years ago.

Nuclear is excellent for base loan and high power density requirements, like industrial electrification, where the cost of transmission and storage would quickly become too expensive.