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Their fusion and fission work is very impressive,” the Microsoft Corp. co-founder said of China’s nuclear innovation efforts. The country is investing more in fusion “than the rest of the world put together, times two

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    11 hours ago

    You are going to make a lot of people influenced by the nuclear propaganda lobby very angry. Didn’t you know Germany had to increase their fossil fuel consumption by 1,000,000% after they stopped nuclear power? /s

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      10 hours ago

      Lmao what the heck is a nuclear propaganda lobby?

      Also, by stopping nuclear power Germany had to increase their carbon emissions by ~400% while also spending more than half a trillion euros so… uh… yeah.

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          10 hours ago

          I did, still not sure why this is supposed to be a problem beyond a general money in politics thing. “Nuclear companies do PR” isn’t really a surprising statement.

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            10 hours ago

            “People falling for PR companies doing” might make more sense. Internet people are so uncritical of nuclear power, it is almost comical.