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[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How do you get the uranium or thorium? Generally, it has to be mined. Are we using nuclear powered mining equipment? No. We use fossil fuel powered mining equipment. Then we use fossil fuels to power the trucks that take the depleted nuclear product to the storage depot, which is powered and requires employees who drive there using fossil fuel powered vehicles, using fossil fuel powered warehouse equipment. When does nuclear power phase out the fossil fuel power? Are we going to decommission oil and coal production facilities? Or are we just going to use nuclear to augment the grid?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Don't forget all the fossil fuels used in machinery that builds nuclear power plants, and the CO2 emissions from all of the concrete used.

Oh, and if you start building a nuclear power plant right now it will be online (maybe) in a decade or two and hopefully for only 150% of the initial cost. There's a nuclear power plant in Georgia that is $17 BILLION over budget.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So basically saving the planet is mega super important, but somehow 17 billions is suddenly too much?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That $17 billion could be spent on renewables that produce cheaper electricity and be online in less than 20 years.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

How much renewables do you get for $17B?