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When asked about the federal government’s role, 41% of Americans say it should encourage the production of nuclear power.

Let's get those new construction contracts signed!

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[–] Rakonat@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Now just imagine if people were actually educated on Nuclear Power and how it actually compares to Solar, Wind, and Fossil fuels. Nuclear beats them and it particularly trounces Solar and Wind when you consider what it takes to power high density homes and business, making it a double win in the ecological friendly factor.

[–] schroedingershat@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

People are educated. That's why they're buying solar panels even in places where laws are being written to make it harder and 10x more expensive.

[–] lntl@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Nuclear is great and the best path forward at this time is a mix of both nuclear and renewables. We don't have to choose one over the other, both have advantages.

[–] keeb420@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

i prefer having both as well. a good mix of industrial renewables with most if not every home having solar and batteries would be a very robust system with nuclear powering heavy applications and as a backup renewables.

also i greatly prefer building new nuclear power plants with the learning we have had since 3 mile island, chernobyl, and fukushima and other incidents along with other advances in tech.

[–] aard@kyu.de 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I have no idea about the US power grid, so your comment may still apply there - though I guess also not for much longer.

The new problem is that in Europe we now occasionally get more than 100% of power needed generated by renewables, so we'd either need storage or fast reacting power plants to compensate for spikes and drops in the renewable supply. We're at a point where we no longer really need new nuclear plants for some 'base load' - which is something they'd be good for. But as cost for operating a nuclear plant is pretty much fixed independent of power output they're very expensive when used for compensating spikes, something Finland just learned the hard way this year.

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Nope, almost nowhere in US has anywhere near that high a portion of renewable energy. Storage is just so people use as an excuse to stop building out renewables. “It’s impossible to have more than 10% renewables”. “The grid will collapse if we have 20% renewables”. Etc

[–] lntl@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

"Fast reacting plants" means natural gas to those in the business ;)