• Zloubida@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    The performance of nuclear power must be calculated in relation to its cost and risk. And here renewable energy is more than competitive.

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      1 month ago

      This is a much more reasonable argument than most.

      But third and fourth-gen nuclear are excellent sources of constant energy that don’t require storage, and some of which have a tiny percentage of the waste stream of prior generations, and what waste they do produce is problematic along the lines of 400 years (as opposed to 27,000 years).

    • joe_@lemmy.ml
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      1 month ago

      I concur. Nuclear has had seventy years to compete. Renewable is cheaper and has nowhere near the political hurdles of nuclear. Give renewables a chance to compete!