Nope, those are being reduced, too. Wind and solar are growing to fill the gap. I guess, people are saying that if only we would have ramped up nuclear, we could've turned off more fossil fuel-powered generation.
But yeah, shit's complex. The last nuclear reactor was fast-tracked to be shut off, because there was fear that Russia might bomb it. We also don't have uranium of our own and dependence on other countries for our energy generation wasn't exactly popular when Russia was our main supplier of natural gas, too.
We've also been looking for 60 years and still have not found a place where we could store the nuclear waste. Pretending that we'll find a place for it any time now, that's just a meme at this point.
I believe for a period once the German anti nuclear movement started there was an increase in fossil fuel usage. But I'm not sure if that is still the case of the top of my head.
Or he could be referring to the environmental impacts of certain renewable being worse in some aspects like hydro impacting migratory patterns of aquatic life.
@Emil als je uitgaat van 33 kWh per kilo, dan 100 euro per MWh, die in 2050 naar ~60 zou zakken. Lijkt me ongeloofwaardig gezien onbewezen tech (smr) zonder logistieke keten, maar dan nog best wel duur, ook al is het waarschijnlijk preferabel boven alternatieven.
De meeste SMRs zijn gewoon bewezen tech (PWR ontwerpen, sommige BWR, die we al decennia bouwen). Maar inderdaad is dit duur. Ga maar eens opzoeken wat het gaat kosten met zon en wind...
24 GWe of nuclear capacity? That's very ambitious. It would offer Uganda a rise in available energy from 5 TWh to almost 200 (!) TWh. I wish them all the best.
Imo, the biggest non-starter for commercial nuclear cargo ships is the maintenance cost. No commercial shipping company will ever be willing to shoulder the maintenance cost for nuclear vessels, because the cost is simply too high to make economic sense for them. Also, they'd have to overcome decades of mistrust and poor practice of maintenance for their current fleet to prove that they can actually maintain a nuclear vessel.
@Emil Of course, the work only just begins. Decades of dependence on Russian nuclear fuel has decimated Western industry on this. The ban makes room for Western nuclear fuel companies to exist, especially American ones. It'll take around a decade to build up this industrial infrastructure.
@Emil Great idea. I guess I would ask what is the holdup to build one? Why spend 4 years on a feasibility study in the midst of a climate emergency that these reactors could help address?
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