Designs chosen for mini nuclear reactors

Submitted ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨ianovic69@feddit.uk⁩ to ⁨unitedkingdom@feddit.uk⁩

Xpost from UK Energy.

Are we never going to stop this madness?

Nuclear will not help us with immediate energy needs, it will not help with climate change and it is worse for the environment, and it costs more than renewables.

The only people who benefit are the shareholders of nuclear companies and the government shit stains who pocket their brown envelopes and take the “consulting” jobs offered by the industry for services rendered.

And all this time, effort and money, OUR MONEY, is not being spent on renewables that can do what we need NOW.

We cannot continue to accept this or any other option that is not renewable.

Any and all opposition against renewable energy is generated and spread by the nuclear and fossil fuel industries.

Nothing I’ve said here is even controversial, there isn’t any hiding from it.

We have to fight this and we have to win.

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DoomBot5@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Spoken like someone who truly knows nothing about nuclear power or really any kind of power generation.

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Nighed@sffa.community ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
It’s probably the only environmentally friendly base load option other than overbuilding renewables and building lots of battery storage.

Nuclear is probably cleaner than building that many batteries…

The micro reactors aim to (hopefully) reduce the main issues with traditional nuclear power.

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- ianovic69@feddit.uk ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  
  overbuilding renewables and building lots of battery storage.
  
  I’m not convinced that we need much battery storage. If there’s enough being generated, less storage is needed. It’s another fossil fuel argument intended to sow doubt.
  
  Nuclear is probably cleaner than building that many batteries…
  
  Even if it is cleaner, we need the funding directed at renewables. This isn’t even debatable; renewables now, other stuff later once the emergency is under control.
  
  The micro reactors aim to (hopefully) reduce the main issues with traditional nuclear power.
  
  Again, this doesn’t help us now and actively hinders our ability to address global heating.
  
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  - Nighed@sffa.community ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    You either need batteries or a Europe wide energy grid. It’s quite possible for it to be still (not windy) over the whole of the UK for example.
    
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FatLegTed@feddit.uk ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
In the time it takes to get these up and generating, we could have had lots of renewables up and generating. And for less cost. And less environmental damage and clean up, down the line.

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- ianovic69@feddit.uk ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Exactly, thank you.
  
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HeartyBeast@kbin.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
The cross-post seems to see this as a zero-sum game - nuclear or renewables. Personally I'm in favour of throwing everything at the problem inclusing nuclear for some base load.. If these smaller reactors can be built more swiftly than regular ones, good.

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- ianovic69@feddit.uk ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Thanks for the thoughtful reply.
  
  I’ve been looking at that same position for a while now; do everything we can and use all the tools.
  
  Nuclear is proposed as part of that blanket but the reality is that we have run out of time for it to be viable. Maybe if the programme was initiated in the 70s/80s and we had lots of nuclear now, but we don’t. Maybe if we survive long enough to limit climate change effects, but right now we need all the funding for our energy needs to be directed into renewables. It’s not even debatable and the only reason anyone thinks it is, is because of lobbying, fearmongering and the deliberate spreading of misinform by the nuclear and oil industries.
  
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ianovic69@feddit.uk ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Wow, looks like we truly are all fucked. If even people on here think this way, we are not surviving. I’m sad for the young and the poor who will bear the brunt, as usual.

Enjoy the last of it, those who follow us are not going to. The next few generations will be powerless against the effects of global climate heating. The enormous loss of life and extreme conditions will be a fitting end to our pitiful apathy.

I’m glad I won’t be around to witness it but neither will you, which annoys me somewhat.

A pox on you all.

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