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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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Fuuck hearing anything from this pedo billionaire. I’ve been seeing that jackasses name far to often lately. I guess I’ll just add it to my filter.
You lost me at ‘Bill Gates Says’.
Sure, but Gates isn’t an expert whose opinion should matter at all.
Who the fuck cares about nuclear. Renewables are the future…
Yeah who the fuck cares about limitless free clean power that also works when it’s cloudy and calm.
Well, it had its chance…
Nuclear’s stagnation has more to do with short-sighted financial incentives and public backlash from people acting as either useful idiots or paid shills of the fossil fuel lobby than anything else.
Thankfully the world is gradually realizing this mistake and investment in nuclear is improving again.
I have heart this arguments in discussions for at least 20 years. So I remain highly doubtfull. But, to get back to the point, renewables are cheaper , built faster, and have more societal acceptance. Sure, some countries will build NPPs but thats not the future or the majority.
Nice data out of context, but renewables are fucking useless to any grid without gas or nuclear to buffer the loads.
I guess you know that is not true so I will not spam you with a million articles and papers that will show you. But l, you are more than welcome to read up yourselfe.
It’s the most expensive form of power we know. It’s far from clean (still shouldn’t pick too many mushrooms in parts of Europe), and it’s really funny you should bring up “limitlessness” when competing against the Sun and Wind.
Nuclear is statistically either the cheapest or the second-cheapest form of production in my home country of Finland, and yes that statistic does take into account the construction costs of our massive 1.6 GW reactor that was finished 13 years behind schedule and ran several billion euros over budget becoming the 8th most expensive construction project ever.
In terms of cleanness it is also incredibly clean. Even if you include Chernobyl and Fukushima (the latter of which leaked barely anything anyway), nuclear has emitted orders of magnitude less radiation than coal. Indeed even thinking that radiation has anything to do with nuclear’s emissions betrays your lack of understanding of the topic – the main emissions concern are the construction and fuel extraction emissions, not because they’re radiological hazards but because they’re not free in terms of carbon emissions. Accounting for those it’s still pretty much the cleanest energy we have though.
In terms of cleanness it is also incredibly clean.
I believe nowadays it would make more sense to compare nuclear to renewable energy, not coal. Apart from that it’s important to keep in mind the nuclear waste problem.
That’s what I was comparing it to. The lifecycle emissions of nuclear plants are similar to solar panels and geothermal energy, and higher than hydro and wind power (though not by so much that it would really matter): https://docs.nrel.gov/docs/fy21osti/80580.pdf
Nuclear waste is not and has never been a real problem. The amount of long-term waste produced is minuscule: the US powers about 70 million homes with nuclear energy, which generates about 2000 metric tons of high-level waste annually – 30 grams per household, about the volume of a marble (and keep in mind these are US households which consume 3 times the power of other western households). Storing it away permanently is… well, not easy, but relatively easy: just do what Finland does and put it underground. The main difficulty with it has always been scaremongering and NIMBYism.
The lifecycle emissions of nuclear plants are similar to (…)
The link you provided talks about something more specific than what you just said. It’s about the Life Cycle Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Electricity Generation. This means that the decommissioning of a nuclear plant for example is not taken into account for these emissions, and it is well known that decommissioning a nuclear power station can easily take several decades (example from world nuclear news)
Nuclear waste is not and has never been a real problem.
The links I added above about France tell another story.
Edit: I looked a bit more into decommissioning and found the following from the International Atomic Energy Agency, and thought of sharing for easier visualisation
The link you provided talks about something more specific than what you just said. It’s about the Life Cycle Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Electricity Generation. This means that the decommissioning of a nuclear plant for example is not taken into account for these emissions
No it doesn’t. And yes, it does account for the decommissioning costs of everything on the chart. See table 1 on page 3, column “One-Time Downstream”.
The links I added above about France tell another story.
The first link you posted says that a solution is already in the works, and would you look at that, they’re doing exactly what I said should be done: building an underground storage facility.
On the other hand, Greenpeace’s idiotic and anti-scientific stance on nuclear is nothing new, and their activism on that front is quite possibly funded by the fossil fuel industry (they do not disclose their donors) like that of many other anti-nuclear groups. Some of the other work Greenpeace does is OK, but you would do well to not trust anything they say on nuclear.
If we invest in grid energy storage, we might be able to skip nuclear entirely. In the meanwhile though, we’re kinda stuck. The way I see it, nuclear power is an intermediary step that is hard to avoid.
We have all the tools we need, they are easier and built faster than NPPs. So I don’t see your point.
Political decision making is the only real bottleneck here. It’s not a technical issue.
Even if this was true, good luck fixing it. Meanwhile, the renewable equivalent of around 80 reactors was built last year.
I think nuclear power will inevitably continue to go wrong (once in a while) as long as humans use it, and it could contribute to the extinction of the planet if overused, so I hope it only goes wrong in ways that result in people not using it where it’s not needed, instead of ways that result in no life surviving human impact
Bill Gates is a notorious capitalist. As mentioned in this article:
Gates sees nuclear power as a way to provide data centers with the power they need as well as to lower electricity costs.
He only cares about his projects and money, definitely not about people. See:
Tell Bill Gates: Stop Microsoft’s partnerships with the Israeli Military and ICE
