This got posted to reddit futurology and the copium in the comments is somewhat funny
And the US commits national suicide.
and condemns anyone who tries to advocate for anything otherwise.
don’t forget medical debt and gun violence.
God I want a nuclear reactor in my literal backyard.
Fortunately I live in Illinois the state that has over 50% of it’s power provided by Nuclear, the most in the nation. (As of 2024, Illinois generates 53.62% of electricity from nuclear power, 31.10% from fossil fuels (comprising of coal, natural gas, petroleum, and other gases), and 15.28% from renewables (comprising of wind, solar, hydropower, and biomass)). It will be nice to get the renewable mix up too, but in the meantime I’m quite happy. Electricity isn’t the cheapest, but it surely is the cleanest which is the only thing that actually matters.
https://cleanenergy.illinois.gov/tracking-illinois-progress/electricity-generation-mix.html
Why is nuclear power still so popular? I thought nuclear was the most expensive kind of energy when renewables were the cheapest.
Nuclear power is non-intermittent and can be used pretty much anywhere. With a push for small-scale reactors, there’s a good chance for smaller places to get their own nuclear power plant, reducing stress on the national grid, and for power plants to be constructed in a much shorter timeframe.
Also, both Russia and China have floating nuclear power plants that can be transported to regions with water access on demand.
Solar and wind are cool, and quite cheap by themselves, but energy storage is a massive and expensive headache and limited placement options mean the grid should be robust enough to accommodate them with minimal power losses.
The only thing that matters is how clean our power is. If you are worrying about “cost” you are supporting capitalism and the fossil fuel industry. And cost to consumers is extremely misleading mostly as a result of power policy, completely divorced from cost to generate. Nuclear can absolutely be cheap, just end the subsidies on other fuel sources, allowing fuel recycling, and imprison all shareholders, congressmen, and lobbyists of the international energy cartels.
You’ve been hoodwinked by the fossil fuel industry lobby that has also misled entire movements (the greens) to be sympathetic when originally they were the reverse. They’ve lobbied for draconian regulations and making the political and economic costs be too high for self preservation. You know like every entrenched industry in America.
Funny story.
And now give us numbers how those “dominance in nuclear upbuild” compares to power production in general…
Lol, what does the US produce? If you really think it can even begin to compare with China you live in another dimension.
I did not mention the US (who are just now trying very hard to become a failed state anyway) but was talking about other power production. No one but lobbyists still riding the dead horse that is nuclear power is caring for who dominates in construction of new reactors when that’s a very small fraction of added production capacity, globally as well as in China.
Making yet another story about some “big push for nuclear” when it’s actually just varying levels of stagnation and decline while renewables show exponential growth is either colossally stupid of bullshit propaganda.
Not that those fairy tales about a nuclear future with renewable upbuild collapsing any day now are new as we all should know by now:
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China still dominates.
