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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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tietjens ◴[12 Sep 25 18:25 UTC] No.45225051[source]▶
Article claims Germany is beginning to shift. I wouldn’t count on that. Despite having to import all of their energy aside from renewables, there is a wide-spread suspicion of nuclear here. The CDU made a lot of noise about it while they were in the opposition, but turning those closed plants back on is highly unlikely. Very costly and I’m not certain the expertise can be hired.
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kulahan ◴[12 Sep 25 18:39 UTC] No.45225195[source]▶
With AI on the horizon and each server farm using as much energy as a medium-sized city, I have no idea how they hope to meet demand otherwise, unless the plan is just some equivalent to "drill baby drill".
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RandomLensman ◴[12 Sep 25 18:42 UTC] No.45225225[source]▶
It would take a long time to build new reactors, so not sure that would help.

Germany could also do more wind, solar, tidal, geothermal (fossil fuels aside).

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bluefirebrand ◴[12 Sep 25 18:48 UTC] No.45225283[source]▶
It is going to take a long time and a lot of resources no matter what so maybe we should be building effective longterm solutions like nuclear instead of stopgap solar and batteries
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RandomLensman ◴[12 Sep 25 18:52 UTC] No.45225317[source]▶
Why would, e.g., solar and chemical or physical storage be a stopgap? Why spend 20 years of building a fission reactor these days (other than for research, medical, or defense purposes) which also make awful targets in a conflict? Maybe just wait till fusion reactors are there.
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kulahan ◴[13 Sep 25 02:43 UTC] No.45228897[source]▶
Why would fusion reactors magically appear when the entire field of nuclear energy production is, in this scenario, essentially dead??
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1. RandomLensman ◴[13 Sep 25 07:03 UTC] No.45229963[source]▶
Not sure why pursuing fusion needs building fission reactors for energy production.
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2. kulahan ◴[13 Sep 25 23:39 UTC] No.45236211[source]▶
Because nuclear engineers, plant operators, radioactive mining facilities, and other types of workers that will be needed across both, need to be employed from today until fusion reactors are made.