Critical hearing looms in battle over California’s last nuclear power plant
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#2question, why aren't we building more nuclear power plant like china?
isn't gen 4 reactor safer?
Re: Critical hearing looms in battle over California’s last nuclear power plant
#3“Clean” energy. Gas fired plants are clean: they only produce CO2 and H20. Nuclear is “dirty”: they produce no CO2, but relatively small amounts of highly toxic waste.
Bonus for “clean” “biomass” plants that actually produce hazard gases from burning tires!
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#4“Clean” energy. Gas fired plants are clean: they only produce CO2 and H20. Nuclear is “dirty”: they produce no CO2, but relatively small amounts of highly toxic waste. Bonus for “clean” “biomass” plants that actually produce hazard gases from burning tires!
I know you are being ironic with "clear", but gas fired plants should also be "billed" for the dirt created by mining the natural gas in the first place.
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#5question, why aren't we building more nuclear power plant like china? isn't gen 4 reactor safer?
California is side stepping the whole mess with nuclear by building out solar and batteries.
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#6> “Radioactive pollutants build up in the cooling water,” said Judson. “In order for the plant to continue functioning properly, they have to discharge them. Some of it is vented out of the smokestack and some of it is released into the water.”
Is there any truth to that? That is not how I thought a nuclear power plant worked.
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#7question, why aren't we building more nuclear power plant like china? isn't gen 4 reactor safer?
Once there was a remote mountaintop monastery, nestled high in the clouds above a deep gorge. To reach the monastery, visitors were required to ride in a basket pulled up from the top. One day, halfway up the cliff, a tourist frowned at the condition of the rope. He asked his guide, "How often do they replace this rope, anyway?" The monk answered "Why, as soon as the old one breaks, of course."
Re: Critical hearing looms in battle over California’s last nuclear power plant
#8question, why aren't we building more nuclear power plant like china? isn't gen 4 reactor safer?
California is side stepping the whole mess with nuclear by building out solar and batteries.
> California is side stepping the whole mess with nuclear by building out solar and batteries.
I like all non-CO2 producing energy sources: nuclear, solar, wind, etc.
For any given energy source, only a subset of territories can use it: solar needs sun (hello Alaska and Wyoming), nuclear needs strong governmental, engineering and public oversight, wind, like sun, is also not universally available.
Specifically California can do all of them, which puts it in a unique position to be choosy. I believe that by going with sun+batteries, California will pave the way for less rich but sunny territories for energy independence / less CO2 pollution.
It's okay in my mind to leave betting on nuclear to the states which don't have that much sun. I am looking forward to the TerraPower plant in Wyoming being built and hopefully more to come after it.
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#9I really can't square this idea that "global warming will end civilization" if we don't reduce CO2 with not using nuclear power. (Even worse, shutting down existing, working plants.)
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#10question, why aren't we building more nuclear power plant like china? isn't gen 4 reactor safer?
Once there was a remote mountaintop monastery, nestled high in the clouds above a deep gorge. To reach the monastery, visitors were required to ride in a basket pulled up from the top. One day, halfway up the cliff, a tourist frowned at the condition of the rope. He asked his guide, "How often do they replace this rope, anyway?" The monk answered "Why, as soon as the old one breaks, of course."
Ah yes hence all those nuclear meltdowns in France