Why aren't nuclear power plants being put up all around the west? Nuclear power has been a thing for a long time and the elite have has FOREVER to position themselves to massively profit from it.
So why isn't it a thing? Especially seeing how energy and almost single handedly starve a nation if a foreign supplier tells people to fuck themselves
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not enough uranium.
A world with two-billion fewer people won't need more power plants. Trust the plan.
They are wildly expensive and as of right now they aren't renewable sources of energy unless we figure out how to harvest uranium from seawater at scale.
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You want cheaper energy???????
Fucking antisemite
Well we’d need about twice, maybe 3 times the amount of power plants we all have atm to survive without gas and parts of oil but that’d drai the uranium supply much, much faster. Until tech gets to the point where we can safely and viably extract uranium from seawater, it won’t happen. Best they’ll try to do is make longer lasting, lubeless wind turbines and attempt to use ocean water for hydropower rather than just seawater
versus fossil fuels which as you can see are acting funky price wise, that and there is ample quantities of nuclear material. The only other "option" being green energy which is power inefficient, requires rare earth minerals, considerably much more expensive that fossil fuels, and has a slew of other major issues that make it not workable.
Coal oil and gas wont last forever, I'd say nuclear is the future but that would be a lie, it was the future half a century ago but it stalled due to big oil and russian incompetence
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we lost 2.2 GW of power when they closed down muh titty plant, replaced by 1.8 GW of natural gas and a higher utility bill.
Nuclear power plants are a farce, it isn't a real thing.
The plants themselves are just hilariously expensive props placed around a bog standard hydroelectric plant using the streams nearby to "cool" the plant to produce energy.
When they are done milking the tax payers for money from it the plant "meltsdown" and nobody is allowed near it because of invisible bad energy, so you cannot see the farce for what it is.
noticed a lot of nuke shilling over last few months and it seems to have originated on plebbit, explain yourself faggot op
>Why aren't nuclear power plants being put up all around the west?
Cost is an issue, but mostly it's because the bodies responsible for shit like this have long since sold out to big oil.
They require billions to construct, take around 20 years for investors to get their return, and it’s unsexy and unmarketable because it’s not new and people are still scared about meltdowns even though they’ve all been caused by human error and negligence. Nobody in power is likely to gain much from throwing large amounts of policy and money it’s way that would be needed to make any meaningful change in the industry.
Assuming no new nuclear reactors are built, we have ~100 years of uranium left, more or less depending on the estimate. If we build more reactors that time is shortened.
Harvesting uranium from seawater is KEY for making nuclear the future. And so far we cannot do that at scale.
And green energy has been cheaper for along while. Sorry
Because the green movement doesnt care about power solutions that dont also help blacks and women. It’s literally stated somewhere that nuclear is green but does not increase equity so they dont want to support it.
Green energy isn't about making the world a better place, it's about virtue signalling as they take things away from us and lower our standard of living. Nuclear would make our lives better, instead they want countries in debt to keep small businesses open because governments are spending billions in gibs for electricity.
They fucking hate you, they'll have ICE cars, private jets, etc and you'll be stuck in some gay ass fake electric car that can only make it 150 miles after 5 years with blackouts and specified times you can only charge your car. You're so fucking naive if you think they're doing any of this shit for our own wellbeing.
because of this cunt!
>Why aren't nuclear power plants being put up all around the west?
Ask the Jews and other globalists/communists. They're the ones intentionally ruining everything for no good reason.
There's not enough support for it. Women are too scared of it.
the greens are too strong of a force in Germany, the retarded krauts will only decommission the plants once the energy crisis that Europe is experiencing ends.
Think they would be smart enough to realize green energy doesnt cut it and that further pursuit means crawling back to russia like a battered housewife? Well if you think that then you have grossly overestimated the intelligence of any green party member. seenecessity spurs innovation, despite the multi generational crusade against nuclear the technology has made major strides over the decades. If nuclear earned its deserved massive adoption money would be allocated towards sea water harvesting or other alternative nuclear fuel sources
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>still scared about meltdowns even though they’ve all been caused by human error and negligence
And?? Why do IFuckingLoveScience faggot morons think this is a skippable non-factor?
>And green energy has been cheaper for along while. Sorry
Its shit. And would need major advances in battery tech to even consider it.
The greens are purposely trying to sabotage the country and then implement socialism or communism. You should hang them immediately.
i work in a nuclear facility
the real reason why there is very limited nuclear build projects is because we are collectively too dumb now. intelligence peaked in 1970, the last great nuclear reactor designs were in this time frame. who will design nuclear power plants now, millenial mutt managerial class or 90 year olds who need help to tie their shoes?
The average age of a nuclear engineer is like 60 years. There has been decades of underinvestment thanks to the renewable energy fad. It takes years to remedy the situation and even longer if the current Peter Pan syndrome sufferers remain in office
No its not. We'd need minor adjustments to way of living at worst.
Partly economics. Nuclear power plant construction stalled, and now the businesses who built them are happier to sit and collect recurring revenue from their proprietary fuel bundle contracts. It would be a lot of work and risk, especially with astroturfed NIMBY, to build up the working knowledge and economies of scale to make it worth doing again.
Partly the distribution of power. Where do you want to make it? Near where it's used and where there's available water for cooling. What's already in all of those locations? A fucking coal power plant that's polluted the environment with radioactive coal ash. Remediation so that you don't have to worry about detecting leaks would be expensive plus coal is already there and cheap enough.
Partly governments being dumb. Really dumb. The Clinton Uranium One scandal probably plays into this. Uranium mining is less-well distributed, so some countries would be concerned about their primary supplier suddenly sanctioning them one day and have only one alternative to turn to. Compared to coal which is available from lots of sources.
Maybe some conspiratorial reasoning too. Malthusian technocrats and useful idiots running things believe that energy access should be restricted and expensive. Either because they really believe the climate change narrative or because they need an excuse that supports stealthily shrinking the economy and implementing more authoritarian rule.
Why give people cheap energy when you can make them suffer and profit off of it? Tesla discovered renewable free energy almost 100 years ago. Spain in the 40's had giant battery powered electric vehicles that would be swapped out at gas stations and recharged.
Water is a basic necessity to function, and they even charge you for that. If they could find a way to keep nuclear energy sustainable and keep the workers under their boot, they would do it.
You need to crash the living standard of the entire west. Green energy is a nothing burger every avenue of it has failed.
Fukushima.
Because we gave women the right to vote.
Nuclear power scares women.
Because only two countries are capable of that and one of them, France, has its hands with constant repairs. Also, uranium ore is not that common.
>my hands so hers look can look like this like this
Are you having a stroke?
>think this is a skippable non-factor?
It can be, and has been, designed around. Don't use ancient Soviet designs and disable literally all the safety systems and you'll be okay. Pick a modern design like a CANDU where if you lose coolant the reaction passively stops alongside the other safety measures that should prevent a situation from ever getting that far.
>uranium ore is not that common
Brought to you by a liberal fuckstick who thinks lithium is endless
>Why aren't nuclear power plants being put up all around the west? Nuclear power has been a thing for a long time and the elite have has FOREVER to position themselves to massively profit from it.
As someone who works in nuclear power these are a few reasons
>Public opposition and ignorance
This is straightforward, if you are interested in nuclear power you already know so I'm skipping this
>Startup cost
Nuclear plants are bigass concrete buildings, in terms of scale they're more comparable to large hydroelectric dams than solar arrays or wind farms. A nuke plant costs in the realm of (a very broad number) about 500 million to 10 billion dollars and can take five years if there are no disruptions in construction. This isn't a matter of just cost however as it means when planning nuclear you have to think closer to a decade ahead than a couple years, especially when you consider expansions (I think a plant in Georgia has been building two new reactors for a plant which already has two for the better part of a decade).
>Maintenance costs
While nuclear is extremely space efficient and even cost efficient that's due to its sheer scale of generation, the maintenance costs of nuclear power plants are massive as even trash disposal is immensely expensive not to mention spent fuel disposal and long term decommissioning when a plant's age makes continued maintenance pointless.
>Fuel disposal
I'm separating this from public opinion because while that's a factor (nobody votes to have nuclear waste stored in their county) it also is partially separate due to the fact that this is a matter of both the waste itself in terms of danger of contamination (which is low) and threats to security (which are also low). Either way this is far from a solved issue and by and large the running solution of dubious long term value is to store it on site, indefinitely, forever.
I still support nuclear, but it's understandable why politicians aren't gung ho about it.