I was just reading about Ukraine and my brain scanned this headline and registered "Support For Nuclear Hit More Than 60%" and out of context it kind of concerned me. Finland, as far as I know, also is the only country to actually have infrastructure in place to deal with permanent disposal of spent fuel. I sure wish more countries would follow their lead. Although I seem to have read something about Sweden making moves to do the same.
@Emil “A common European market for nuclear power plants would enable the benefits of serial production, and this requires a technology-neutral climate and energy policy from the EU, as well as cooperation between nuclear safety authorities in harmonising requirements.”
This is what I'm talking about! A European cooperation like this would be great idea!
"Extensions can be granted once only and limited to a maximum of 20 years"
So, only a 60 year maximum run? That seems like a waste and unnecessary legal barrier. Just keep them running as long as they comply with safety requirements.
So we know the situation is out of control and the actors don't listen to the UN.
Get your bug-out backs ready, folks. Remember to have a copy of Wikipedia on your phone just for survival knowledge and to have wireless mesh networking messaging apps, just in case the Internet goes down.
Apps like firechat. Not to useful in non-city areas, but still. What mesh networking means in those terms is that devices like phones capable of acting as a wifi hotspot and being part of one, act as sort of servers to create a larger network. Then a person in the network can send a message to another in it, despite no-one in the mesh network being actually on the internet. So the message would travel through several phones to reach the destination, but the devices it travels through still can't read the message, they just deliver it.
Fucking greedy money addicts making us go through WWIII when we could be building a Star Trek style utopia, smh
@Emil This is a pretty big change from the EU. If anything, it's still way too timid (we need hundreds of new big units in Europe, not merely 30), but this is already a watershed moment compared to just a few years ago when nuclear was the black sheep in Brussels.
(I'm pro-nuclear in general, but as a Georgia Power ratepayer it gets kind of hard when you've already been on the hook for paying for the goddamn thing for years before it even generates its first watt.)
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