For those of you who'd like to geek out on the upcoming crushing of the conventional fossil fuel/nuclear/coal industry. There may be delays as the in place industries flex their political muscle, but their end is closer than most realize.
This isn't woo-woo or wishful thinking. The technology exists, the cost curves are real.
Nuclear science has repeatedly offered new safer reactors to get us off fossil fuels, most notably Thorium MSR reactors, but conservatives aren’t happy unless it pollutes excessively and everyone else thinks ALL nuclear power is ultra dangerous.
We only need it until we get tokamak fusion reactor technology mature enough to produce commercial level power output.
Most of the best made nucs are from Europe. Now some of Europe is going off nuclear. India made a big nuclear deal, 5 or so years ago to build 8 or more reactors. They hired all European companies for all but one reactor and said publicly that picking an American company was pure politics. When I say Europe I am not including Russia.
Have you seen the Russian nuclear barges they are selling to small cities? Essentially the barges sit on the water with what amounts to two reactors designed for naval vessels. They can power 50k or more households.
@Beowulfsfriend Most people don’t realize that fossil fuel plants produce dramatically more radiation than nuclear power plants from materials native to fossil fuels like radon and trace amounts to radium, uranium etc...
@Willow_Wisp Aside from breeder reactors, I've been much more open to nuclear power much of my life. I'm from Central PA and wasn't there for Three Mile Island, but that was an elder and poorly run reactor. From my parents' house you can see the glow of lights from the Peach Bottom reactor, 40 miles South of TMI.
@Beowulfsfriend I was a Navy nuke. Had to find an alternative so I became a programmer. I do my grim reaper stuff for kicks.
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