Why Britain Is Struggling With Nuclear Power
www.nytimes.com
The government wants more nuclear plants to help tackle climate change, but delays and soaring costs are complicating the effort.
    • federalreverse-old ( federalreverse@feddit.de ) 
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      3 years ago

      Coal use in Germany has actually continued to decrease since the nuclear plants were turned off. Germany just tends to import a bit more energy (mostly hydro from Scandinavia/Austria/Switzerland, wind from Denmark or solar/nuclear from France) from its neighbors because that’s cheaper than running gas or coal plants in Germany. (And of course there are also the economic woes which have led to slowing demand for energy.)

    • OmnipotentEntity ( OmnipotentEntity@beehaw.org ) 
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      3 years ago

      I am all for nuclear if it powers ambulances. I don’t want nuclear to power the tenth plastic-shit plant building the next thing nobody needs or a billion SUVs.

      How is this different from Solar and Wind exactly? Wind and Solar can be used to power shitty consumer garbage factories just as easily as nuclear can?