Post #1238611

2026-04-14 08:34 UTC

@notjustbikes I used to be very pro-nuclear. While.I still think removing power plants today for ecological reasons is highly counter productive, I have significantly changed my position overall. So many countries don't have the ability to deploy nuclear. They don't have any already, building the expertise takes decades, and can be the cause of geopolitical tensions (see Iran...).

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@sgued@pouet.chapril.org 2026-04-14 08:36

@notjustbikes Since all these countries will have to make do with just renewables, we will have to solve the base load issue without nuclear, so even for countries with existing nuclear infrastructure, it's essentially going to be obsolete. And economically it seems much better to develop a local renewable industry that we can export globally, rather than a nuclear one that is going to be obsolete by the end of he century (and if it isn't we're doomed anyways)

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@LovesTha@floss.social 2026-04-14 08:39

@sgued @notjustbikes it was an excellent option we should have deployed more of in the 90's. But it isn't the 90's any more.

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@cdamian@rls.social 2026-04-14 08:42

@sgued @notjustbikes I agree, new reactors just don't make financial sense any more. And it will take so long to build them that renewables will be even more cheap.

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@isotopp@infosec.exchange 2026-04-14 09:25

@sgued @notjustbikes I used to be very pro-nuclear, but I am now very pro-fusion. I have a number of remote nuclear fusion receivers on the roof of my house, and they are netting me around 7 MWh/year at zero running cost.

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@kravietz@agora.echelon.pl 2026-04-14 09:30

@sgued@pouet.chapril.org Have you considered geopolitical tensions in an industry where 85% of the whole supply chain (!) is controlled by a single authoritarian country? That’s the PV market today and includes not only the panels but also backdoored inverters…

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