With the ever-ongoing ‘progress’ of the proposed UK nuclear power plants, I wonder if this is the best course of action (not just in the UK, but across other nations also)?
With the ever-ongoing ‘progress’ of the proposed UK nuclear power plants, I wonder if this is the best course of action (not just in the UK, but across other nations also)?
It takes days to erect a wind turbine. It takes more than a decade for anyone outside China to get power out of a reactor.
Wind turbine waste is a problem, the blades are fibreglass. They take up a fair bit of space and they’re hard to use for order stuff
Nuclear plants produce radioactive waste throughout their lives and then are themselves radioactive waste when they go out of service
Wind turbines are not a terrorism target unlike nuclear plants
And every analysis I have read says nuclear is far more expensive than renewables
(I didn’t down vote you)
Hinkley Point C plant will cost out at $64B.
By not building nuclear power plants since the 80s, barring France and China. And continue to rather build fossile fuel power than nuclear.
We polluted this planet with so much radioactive waste we couldve powered our civilization with dirty nuclear power for a 1000 years.
And we humans solved the nuclear power waste. The majority of that waste loses its radiation within decades and that last bit we can store under the earth, rather than putting it our atmosphere.
Wind power has its benefits of course, but like solar, it cant power our civilization without storage and when you throw storage in the mix, it favours nuclear power in every measurement.