IMHO I do not think nuclear will save us from climate change - it takes too long to get going to be effective - but this is going to really agitate some chud/nerd brains worms

  • NaturalsNotInIt [any]
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    3 years ago

    It's down because of regulation and bunch of Boomers who are still anti-nuclear.

    France went from almost all fossils to about 75% nuke from 1975 to 2000 to the point that they power a lot of Europe now when the wind stops blowing. The US similarly built almost all of its nuclear capacity in the span of 25 or so years.

    • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Similar with Canada, who actually developed a very safe fission reactor (a part of the byproduct being an isotope used in cancer treatments). So of course we stopped expanding the program and starved it of resources.

    • account346533 [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      When you build a lot at the same time it gets cheaper and safer too. More is known about their operation as well as more mass production of parts is possible.