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EU court rules nuclear energy is clean energy

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1041 points mpweiher | 2 comments | 12 Sep 25 18:18 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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jama211 ◴[12 Sep 25 19:19 UTC] No.45225631[source]▶
I’m totally fine with nuclear honestly, but I feel like I don’t understand something. No one seems to be able to give me a straight answer with proper facts that explain why we couldn’t just make a whole load more renewable energy generators instead. Sure, it might cost more, but in theory any amount of power a nuclear plant would generate could also be achieved with large amounts of renewables no?
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9dev ◴[12 Sep 25 19:29 UTC] No.45225742[source]▶
If you factor in all the cost usually externalised in nuclear power, it’s often a lot more expensive than people realise. Decommissioning nuclear waste and old reactors is a huge, time-consuming, and thus extremely expensive operation.
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beeflet ◴[12 Sep 25 20:17 UTC] No.45226281[source]▶
Nuclear waste is a problem caused by activists preventing disposal sites like yucca mountain from being built
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1. BrtByte ◴[13 Sep 25 06:10 UTC] No.45229729[source]▶
Yep, the "nuclear waste problem" is 90% political, not technical
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2. 9dev ◴[13 Sep 25 21:02 UTC] No.45235279[source]▶
That doesn't change its cost in the slightest, unless you have a solution for some part of the population not agreeing with you