@Emil Another pair extended to 80 years! 👏

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The most shocking part of this post is "a decade after..."

The fuck?

@Krusty @Emil Is it not a problem with war areas in general?

@Emil Of course, the work only just begins. Decades of dependence on Russian nuclear fuel has decimated Western industry on this. The ban makes room for Western nuclear fuel companies to exist, especially American ones. It'll take around a decade to build up this industrial infrastructure.

@Draedron
Really? Tell us more. I never ever heard these arguments before. I also never ever refuted them a thousand times already. Please, tell us, as we never heard these very original takes!
@Emil

@Emil “A common European market for nuclear power plants would enable the benefits of serial production, and this requires a technology-neutral climate and energy policy from the EU, as well as cooperation between nuclear safety authorities in harmonising requirements.”

This is what I'm talking about! A European cooperation like this would be great idea!

@Emil This is a pretty big change from the EU. If anything, it's still way too timid (we need hundreds of new big units in Europe, not merely 30), but this is already a watershed moment compared to just a few years ago when nuclear was the black sheep in Brussels.

They're finally starting to get it!

@KevonLooney Ok, let's assume you're not trolling and you genuinely don't know that the tertiary cooling piping has zero contact with the reactor.

The primary cooling network goes through the reactor. The secondary network powers the turbine and already has no contact with the fuel rods in the reactor. The tertiary network is then used for the district heating.

So, there is no "nuclear steam" involved.

So, let's reverse our places and hope you weren't acting you didn't understand this.

@Emil

@Diplomjodler @Emil Sure, let's check the white elephant in the room, systems cost:

Bank of America research: "Industry research suggests that, after accounting for efficiency, storage needs, the cost of transmission, and other broad system costs, nuclear power plants are one of the least expensive sources of energy."

👉 https://advisoranalyst.com/2023/05/11/bofa-the-nuclear-necessity.html/

(The graphs on page 12 are quite damning for solar and wind).

This could be huge! Uranium from seawater could power humanity with the current technology for millennia and hundreds of millions of years (essentially forever) using breeder reactors. It would be great if we could use this on a commercial level.

@Ardubal @Emil It's how Lemmy works. Not a choice I'm afraid.

"India plans to ramp up nuclear capacity from 7.48GW to 22.4GW by 2031."

That's awesome.