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0 pointsmschuster914y ago0 comments

That's outright impossible. Not just on the political level - no one aside from the fascist party wants nuclear energy. The closed-down reactors are being torn down as we speak, it is impossible to put them back together. For those still running, we do not have the capacity to make new fuel rods for and to maintain the reactors themselves, they are at the end of their designed life time. And new projects are completely out of the question - the French and Finnish projects are many years and many billions over budget.

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Pigalowda4y ago· 2 in thread

That’s kind of a brittle take. Germany has suffered an embarrassment and is back peddling over the course of only a few days.

- From helmets to actual military aid to Ukraine.

- large increase in military expenditure instead of woeful inadequacy.

- reversal of Swift decision.

Why wouldn’t there be a change in energy policy if Russia continues its war in Ukraine? This huge reliance on Russian gas has Europe, and especially Germany, in this strange conflict of interest.

mschuster91OP4y ago

Building out nuclear plans takes years, many billions of euros, and considerable protest from wherever you install them. Installing wind and solar power is cheap and fast, in comparison.

throwaway0a5e4y ago

It takes years because people like you in aggregate demand that it do so. Submitting plans, evaluations of those plans, comment periods, etc. etc. etc. only move so fast because that's how the process is set up. The process is set up to delay and deny because that's where the political winds blew at the time the process was created.

If political winds change to support nuclear then such processes would evaporate into something far more streamlined and efficient because they simply don't make any sense in the context of "we want to do this nuclear thing and we want to do it ASAP".

misja1114y ago· 1 in thread

Meanwhile, the Netherlands are moving away from gas and are planning to build new nuclear reactors. Belgium has postponed the planned closure of their nuclear plants. France has decided to build new nuclear reactors.

It doesn't seem to be so impossible as you think.

_ph_4y ago

France isn't building enough new reactors to replace all the aging ones - at best this can delay the exit from nuclear power. Whether Netherlands is going to see through building new reactors has to be seen.

ClumsyPilot4y ago· 1 in thread

> That's outright impossible

Lets imagine that the gas pipeline from Russia explodes due to war or Putin shuts it off. Is it still 'impossible', as in we'd rather freeze and have blackouts?

Jon_Lowtek4y ago

> "the gas pipeline"

which one? https://www.gie.eu/publications/maps/gie-lng-map/

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