Nuclear Power

Is your country big on nuclear power?

What do you think about nuclear power in general?

Do you like it, or dislike, and why?

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Only used here for research and medicine. No commercially supplied nuclear power.

It never really made sense for Australia, despite having developed uranium reserves. Coal was always cheaper back when people didn't care about the climate, and now that they do renewables are cheaper.

I think eventually we need to transition to wind and solar since those are becoming increasingly cheap and effective but it's insanity to phase out of nuclear before those alternatives are completely ready to replace them at a cheaper per kilowatt cost.
That said, nuclear power is expensive as fuck and any new investment should go into wind and solar over nuclear.
Every house in this country should have solar on the roof and a battery. It's less than €10k these days to make a household almost completely solar powered.

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Is nuclear being "expensive" the reason why you're phasing it out?

Renewables aren't cheaper though
They're heavily subsidized by the taxpayer but that doesn't really make them cheaper

Yes. Money talks. You can tell people it's for any reason but what costs the state money is more likely to go than stay.

Italy pulled a Germany before Germany did. In 1987 our politicians actually let our country's energy policy be decided by a referendum (along with 4 other referendums at the same time) and surprisingly enough, after Chernobyl, Italians decided to vote against nuclear power. So here we are 35 years later making natural gas deals with Qatar, getting cucked by Russia over oil, and even getting some nuclear power from France.

based, your country made the right choice

Nuclear is cool but we’re eventually going to have to give it up because it doesn’t please the g*rmans and the cuckropean union

True 5-10 years ago but no longer true now, the price of renewables, especially solar, has been in free fall for a decade.

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Bullshit

You seem very convinced in your viewpoint so I'd love to see which statistical data caused you to hold this opinion.

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Renewable don't work when certain circumstances are not met. Nuclear is much more reliable.

You need a combination. The biggest downside of renewables now in inconsistent energy delivery. Since the electric grid works with peaks and lows and renewables have an inconsistent and non adjustable energy output. Part of this can be offset with batteries since lithium ion battery technology is also racing ahead. If every home has a battery, the grid's power needs can be normalized. Then you only need a small amount of another energy source on standby to catch major peaks that are too much for the battery grid.
This can be literally anything, even coal, since it would only be a small and occasional part of power generation.

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I don't need stats
Renewables: sun goes down or wind isn't up: there goes your power source, also dependent on materials extracted from 3rd world countries which are the only places who have no qualms about obliterating their environment to extract them
Nuclear: stable, safe, made expensive only because of insane red tape and unwillingness to invest in infrastructure and research because of propaganda

I wish we had 3x the number of reactors right now so energy was cheaper

Yes we are very big on nuclear. I love nuclear.

was surprised iran wasnt on the list desu ngl fr no cap

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You normalize that output with batteries. But you do need something to catch the peaks and pick up slack for the renewables, which you can do with nuclear or anything else. You need a combination, solar and wind when possible, others when needed.

No we built one plant and then had a plebiscite on whether to activate it which got defeated by .5% so we never activated it

Why bother with batteries when they only exacerbate the problem of dependance on and pollution of heavy and rare earth metals further when you can just stick to fossil fuels which are already a form of energy storage?