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> Electricity becoming a commodity doesn't necessarily make nuclear reactors become commodities. Bad comparison? Nuclear reactors become obsolete. The only rea
by childintime 1mo ago
> Electricity becoming a commodity doesn't necessarily make nuclear reactors become commodities.
Bad comparison? Nuclear reactors become obsolete. The only reason to build a nuclear reactor is as a government vanity project, just to get the bribes you want, or weapons grade material. Dirty tech.
- LunaSea 1mo agoAnd you know the small benefit of having stable, large scale and low CO2 emission electricity production.
- childintime 1mo agoYou have put on rosy glasses. Solar begins saving CO2 immediately, while nuclear reactors begin emitting CO2 before they are ready. After a 10-15 year investment in concrete that results in around 4x the CO2 emissions.. they are obsolete by the time they start producing. And additionally they produce still nuclear waste, nobody wants to have them nearby, and they are a strategically high risk in multiple ways (military, financial, environmental). They are vanity projects.
- LunaSea 25d agoVanity projects that make France produce electricity with 25x less CO2 / kWh than Germany.