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Re: Show HN: I built interactive map of active and decommissioned nuclear stations

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Post by Moldoteck »

cinntaile wrote: post #46
Moldoteck wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

german auto companies aren't that competitive in ev field and i'm not sure they want to. Thousands of ppl are working at those and that work is related to combustion engine design, switching to ev might mean a huge blow for them. Nuclear, if done like in france/japan/korea, means cheap(er) reliable electric energy which would motivate more ppl to switch to ev's and since there are other players like tesla (more popul…

France, Japan and Korea are all countries with a big vested interest in ICE vehicles so why doesn't your reasoning apply to them?

the interest in ice vehicles is either smaller and smaller lobby from them or the countries had little natural resources and national interest was put first, but who knows

Re: Show HN: I built interactive map of active and decommissioned nuclear stations

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Post by toomuchtodo »

ViewTrick1002 wrote: post #44
fifilura wrote: post #39

In Scandinavia i would say Denmark is the anomaly. Their bet is on wind power. I think they also had a negative sentiment towards nuclear because Sweden built one of their (now closed) plants very close to Copenhagen. Norway has so much high yield Hydro power that they would not need it. (The difference between Swedish and Norwegian hydro is that the landscape is more dramatic so they can get a big height difference.…

Finland opened a single new reactor after a 13 year delay on what was supposed to be a 5 year project at unimaginable cost for all involved parties. Not a great look.

While late to the party, it will provide material support for the Baltics as they disconnect from the Russian grid over the next 6-12 months [1]. Synchronous condensers are being installed, and the FinlandEstonia interconnect is being upgraded to support more current [2] [3]. This should also reduce Estonia's carbon heavy generation from oil shale [4].

[1] https://www.dw.com/en/baltic-states-seek-to-decouple-grid-fr...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39545607 (citations)

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37832343 (citations)

[4] https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/estonia-turns-back-s...

Re: Show HN: I built interactive map of active and decommissioned nuclear stations

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Post by qwerty9001 »

pjc50 wrote: post #49
rob74 wrote: post #3

> what came to my surprise is that Poland, Turkey, Scandinavian countries, Africa have literally 1 to none nuclear stations. Also, Austria: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_Austria Short timeline: - 1972: started building its first nuclear power plant - 1978: parliament decides to ban nuclear power for 20 years - 1997: ban is made permanent Note that the initial decision for the ban was even before Cher…

The South African nuclear reactor was of course linked to their desire to have nuclear weapons: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Africa_and_weapons_of_ma... It's difficult to disentangle civilian power from nuclear weapons concerns. This is particularly important if you want to get a good historical understanding of the opposition to nuclear reactors. - until the end of the cold war, many people considered the ris…

> … while global warming was a comparatively distant threat.

Ahhh young folks. Until about the 70s all the media, leading scientist and organisations were concerned about the impending ice age.

So no, people then could not be bothered by the global warming, as they were actively scared of the horrors of the coming ice age.

How times have changed.

Re: Show HN: I built interactive map of active and decommissioned nuclear stations

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Post by mistrial9 »

qwerty9001 wrote: post #55
pjc50 wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The South African nuclear reactor was of course linked to their desire to have nuclear weapons: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Africa_and_weapons_of_ma... It's difficult to disentangle civilian power from nuclear weapons concerns. This is particularly important if you want to get a good historical understanding of the opposition to nuclear reactors. - until the end of the cold war, many people considered the ris…

> … while global warming was a comparatively distant threat. Ahhh young folks. Until about the 70s all the media, leading scientist and organisations were concerned about the impending ice age. So no, people then could not be bothered by the global warming, as they were actively scared of the horrors of the coming ice age. How times have changed.

> Until about the 70s all the media, leading scientist and organisations were concerned about the impending ice age

no, not "all" the media nor all the leading scientists.. this is simply false

Re: Show HN: I built interactive map of active and decommissioned nuclear stations

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Post by defrost »

qwerty9001 wrote: post #55
pjc50 wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The South African nuclear reactor was of course linked to their desire to have nuclear weapons: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Africa_and_weapons_of_ma... It's difficult to disentangle civilian power from nuclear weapons concerns. This is particularly important if you want to get a good historical understanding of the opposition to nuclear reactors. - until the end of the cold war, many people considered the ris…

> … while global warming was a comparatively distant threat. Ahhh young folks. Until about the 70s all the media, leading scientist and organisations were concerned about the impending ice age. So no, people then could not be bothered by the global warming, as they were actively scared of the horrors of the coming ice age. How times have changed.

Nonsense.

You actually fell for the early FUD being spread by the fossil industry?

And you're still parroting it 50 years later?

Have another pack of death sticks and kick back with nine out of ten doctors sucking back cancer.

Re: Show HN: I built interactive map of active and decommissioned nuclear stations

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Post by 3np »

externedguy wrote: post #22
RajuVarghese wrote: post #19

There is a circle with 10 nuclear stations that is erroneously located (on the map) in the Atlantic just south of West Africa. That should be in/near China.

There are more than 10. It's the Null Island location @hiergiltdiestfu refers to in another comment. Will add the locations to all of them once I have time to put all the coordinates in.

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