New York state wants both renewables and nuclear energy (2016)
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Re: New York state wants both renewables and nuclear energy (2016)
#2Nukes makes it sound like they want nuclear missiles but this is about nuclear energy...
Re: New York state wants both renewables and nuclear energy (2016)
#3Unpopular opinion (though getting less so): the politicization of nuclear energy in the 1960s and the resulting lack of investment & R&D advances may go down as one of the biggest blunders in human history.
Even with some modest ongoing investments, we'd have designs that are FAR safer than systems currently in operation.
Re: New York state wants both renewables and nuclear energy (2016)
#4Nukes makes it sound like they want nuclear missiles but this is about nuclear energy...
It might confuse an AI, but a human would immediately know because the word renewables is first.
Re: New York state wants both renewables and nuclear energy (2016)
#5Nukes makes it sound like they want nuclear missiles but this is about nuclear energy...
I've said many times that nuclear power needs better marketing. Drop nuclear from the name like the MRI manufacturers did. It's no longer a nuclear plant, it's a traveling wave plant, or a molten salt plant- more descriptive and also separates the concept in people's minds from a Simpsons-esque nuclear plant.
Re: New York state wants both renewables and nuclear energy (2016)
#6Unpopular opinion (though getting less so): the politicization of nuclear energy in the 1960s and the resulting lack of investment & R&D advances may go down as one of the biggest blunders in human history. Even with some modest ongoing investments, we'd have designs that are FAR safer than systems currently in operation.
People got scared (somewhat legitimately) and we regulated them to death. It became so risky and so expensive to invest in nuclear that nobody, not even the big companies with nuclear divisions like GE did it.
People talk about failures of the market all the time, and there are many. This was one of the failures of regulation.
I think we're starting to see a small revival here finally, but is it too late? Renewables are driving down the cost of electricity so any nuclear companies not only have to find a way to be profitable today, but 1, 2, 3 decades from now.
Re: New York state wants both renewables and nuclear energy (2016)
#7This is from 2016.
A lot of states have been giving carbon credits to nuclear plants for a long time. There are several where it makes good sense to implement subsidies of that nature. So this is not a terribly new idea, nor is it as controversial as the article attempts to make it out to be..
Re: New York state wants both renewables and nuclear energy (2016)
#8Nukes makes it sound like they want nuclear missiles but this is about nuclear energy...
I've said many times that nuclear power needs better marketing. Drop nuclear from the name like the MRI manufacturers did. It's no longer a nuclear plant, it's a traveling wave plant, or a molten salt plant- more descriptive and also separates the concept in people's minds from a Simpsons-esque nuclear plant.
"Krypton production facility"? The mascot could be a neon light.
Re: New York state wants both renewables and nuclear energy (2016)
#9Nukes makes it sound like they want nuclear missiles but this is about nuclear energy...
Yes... is this an American phrasing? I (from UK) would definitely write this as "renewables and nuclear".
Re: New York state wants both renewables and nuclear energy (2016)
#102016. I wondered why there was no mention of the debacle that is Illinois.