@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.
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@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!
@Emil Anti-nuclear activists must be really in a bind explaining this one away.
"But isn't there smore sun in Bangladesh? But isn't solar cheaper? But but ..."
Nuclear provides dispatchable energy in a densely populated country. This is a smart choice.
@KevonLooney I skipped that part because, in my opinion, it is completely irrelevant. But I do think that out of those 400,000 people receiving nuclear heat, there are bound to be party officials and other 'higher ups'.
@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 Currently 57% of all uranium globally is retrieved using ISL. This will further raise the number, further decreasing the footprint of uranium mining.
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