Comment on Nuclear power explained in 12 numbers to help you understand how it fits Australia’s energy needs

• princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  And? We should be decommissioning and demolishing any that are upstream of settlements because of their huge risk of catastrophe.

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  • Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    because of their huge risk of catastrophe

    Dams help prevent natural disasters. Preventing flooding is famously why the Aswan High Dam was built in Egypt, and the presence of flood-managed dams in SEQ is possibly one of the reasons we were affected so much less badly here in 2022 than Northern NSW, where the dams are comparatively small, ungated, and have no active management during flood conditions.

    I agree that dams are not great ecologically and we should avoid building them, especially given how incredibly useful solar and wind power are (though wind has its own ecological problems). But it’s not especially useful to say that they have a “huge risk of catastrophe”.

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    • psud@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      There are a class of American privately owned dams that recently got press for being at risk of catastrophe. I think that’s what informed that lemming

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  • psud@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Just take them down? With what people paid with what money? Keep in mind that these dams are our best black start capability, that they have important use

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