Cool graph and all, but nuclear power is not the way to go. It’s slow to construct, not flexible at all and very expensive. Building new reactors just isn’t viable when there’s wind and solar.
Expertise is definitely a problem with new fission plants. My neighbor is a pensioner in his 70s and is currently the only guy in Europe able to calculate and certify some very niche/specific concrete anchors for reactor shielding.
It very much is the way to go for many countries. Nuclear is expensive, but it takes up significantly less space, and is significantly more stable than solar and wind. They all should be used, but saying nuclear is “not the way to go” is flat out wrong.
Cool graph and all, but nuclear power is not the way to go. It’s slow to construct, not flexible at all and very expensive. Building new reactors just isn’t viable when there’s wind and solar.
This often has to do with expertise and demand. If we aren’t building them often, it becomes more difficult to build them.
What does this mean? It boils water. How flexible does it have to be to boil water?
So is the environmental crisis.
the environmental impact is spread out enough to not matter to any individual
Expertise is definitely a problem with new fission plants. My neighbor is a pensioner in his 70s and is currently the only guy in Europe able to calculate and certify some very niche/specific concrete anchors for reactor shielding.
France went all in on nuclear. Their nuclear company still went bankrupt.
Not flexible means you can’t just switch a nuclear power plant on or off when power is needed or not needed. It takes days.
It very much is the way to go for many countries. Nuclear is expensive, but it takes up significantly less space, and is significantly more stable than solar and wind. They all should be used, but saying nuclear is “not the way to go” is flat out wrong.
Unless you’re bloody Singapore, who the fuck cares about space efficiency of power generation?
fields of solar/wind require enough land that it starts to matter
I can only speak for Germany, which has more than enough space for renewables