Except battery storage costs a fortune and isnt ideal for cold climate regions.
Plus the excessively long timespans & project costs of nuclear should wind up being curbed by things like small modular reactors and boilerplate pre certified designs.
And trying to make nuclear projects a conservative bait and switch is one hell of a reach.
And trying to make nuclear projects a conservative bait and switch is one hell of a reach.
You have not noticed the conservative agenda to push nuclear instead of renewables? Once again, it allows us to keep using oil for 10 more years.
Nuclear has been neglected for 50 years while renewables have advanced at lightning speed. There was a case for nuclear in the past. There no longer is. I believe it is even way more expensive to build nuclear these days.
Besides being cheaper, there is no more nuclear explosion risk, and can be deployed right now instead of in 10 years. Renewables are obviously the way to go. This was different in the past. It no longer is.
Once again, SMRs. Quite cheap, easy to deploy and due to their modular design wont take a decade.
Nuclear has also advanced significantly in safety in that time, along with finding cheaper sources for the fuel and fuel recycling.
On top of that bleeding edge thorium reactors literally cannot have a run away reaction as they are designed with the ability to drain the fuel into a safety tank should a temperature threshhold be exceeded.
Reactors are also expensive these days due to constantly using bespoke one off designs, if you production line a reactor like the Souuth Koreans and French have done and what SMRs will also be able to do the initial capital cost looks far less horrifying.
And no I havent really noticed Tories pushing that narrative, in America its all about oil and outside of America they’re generally far more open to a mixture of power sources.
Except battery storage costs a fortune and isnt ideal for cold climate regions.
Plus the excessively long timespans & project costs of nuclear should wind up being curbed by things like small modular reactors and boilerplate pre certified designs.
And trying to make nuclear projects a conservative bait and switch is one hell of a reach.
You have not noticed the conservative agenda to push nuclear instead of renewables? Once again, it allows us to keep using oil for 10 more years.
Nuclear has been neglected for 50 years while renewables have advanced at lightning speed. There was a case for nuclear in the past. There no longer is. I believe it is even way more expensive to build nuclear these days.
Besides being cheaper, there is no more nuclear explosion risk, and can be deployed right now instead of in 10 years. Renewables are obviously the way to go. This was different in the past. It no longer is.
Once again, SMRs. Quite cheap, easy to deploy and due to their modular design wont take a decade.
Nuclear has also advanced significantly in safety in that time, along with finding cheaper sources for the fuel and fuel recycling.
On top of that bleeding edge thorium reactors literally cannot have a run away reaction as they are designed with the ability to drain the fuel into a safety tank should a temperature threshhold be exceeded.
Reactors are also expensive these days due to constantly using bespoke one off designs, if you production line a reactor like the Souuth Koreans and French have done and what SMRs will also be able to do the initial capital cost looks far less horrifying.
And no I havent really noticed Tories pushing that narrative, in America its all about oil and outside of America they’re generally far more open to a mixture of power sources.