Why is nuclear energy so bad? I'm pretty sure my country (Switzerland), France, and Germany use it extremely successfully. You can occasionally even see these radioactive waste treatment centers from the highway.
Why is nuclear energy so bad? I'm pretty sure my country (Switzerland), France...
William Baker
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Gabriel Powell
It isn't. It's just fear mongering by lobby groups that affects people who aren't educated on the topic.
Carson Morales
I agree with you but then why do so called "educational channels" like kurzgesagt state otherwise?
Colton Brown
It depends a lot on how it's regulated and how the companies maintaining the plants behave.
Joseph Turner
>France, and Germany use it extremely successfully
Germany is phasing it out. France's Areva Corp who is the state-monopoly for Nuclear is bankrupt and requires billions of taxpayer money to stay solvent.
Until Nuclear becomes cheaper it will stay dead. Some options:
1. Higher Efficiency turbines. Super-critical or Brayton cycle turbines can bring efficiency to +40%
2. Cheaper Fuels. Switching to lower enriched Uranium or Thorium can dramatically bring down costs by being more abundant and require little/lower processing.
3. Compact designs and Digital Controls. Self explanatory.
4. Standardization on fewer models. Stop trying to create a zoo with each reactor having unique and special supplier requirements.
All of these proposals are being worked on with Generation IV reactors.
Ryan Adams
I work in the united states nuclear industry, right now here is a mandatory push towards normalizing the procedural work and unifying the plants so that consultants can have some similarity between plants. The hope of this is to reduce costs of major projects by having a common process industry wide.
We'll see how much it really helps
Benjamin Gonzalez
Areva Corp is having problems because 2008 recession, fukushima, and problems with sand monkeys in north africa.
France pays 18 cents per kwh, compared to 35 cents in Germany.
Samuel Thomas
It's not bad. It's demonized by pseudo-environmentalists because anything that doesn't come from nature = bad
Asher Rogers
Here in Switzerland nuclear energy costs twice as much as it would cost to buy energy from germany. It's being phased out by 2050 but some people are pushing for a vote to get rid of it sooner.
I think it has its importance due to its strategical role in making us energy self-reliant, but very expensive
Jordan Foster
As a suede o scientist I think nuclear is not a valid "green" energy source because of the complications around its explosive radioactivity. When there is a problem it is fucking huge and more or less permanently fucks shit up.
Why can we not utilise more wind turbines, geothermal, solar, magnetic Tesla magic?