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EU court rules nuclear energy is clean energy

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1041 points mpweiher | 1 comments | 12 Sep 25 18:18 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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Luker88 ◴[13 Sep 25 07:21 UTC] No.45230034[source]▶
I am not sure people understand the implications of this.

First, it's not just nuclear, it's also Natural gas.

Second, lots of nations have incentives for "clean" energy. And now magically, all those incentives apply to nuclear and gas.

It's a money grab from nuclear and gas manufacturers. It's not that the courts were involved for nothing.

Still, we should use more nuclear. If only it was less expensive to build...

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m101 ◴[13 Sep 25 07:52 UTC] No.45230176[source]▶
Nuclear + gas is the climate friendly solution.
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grafmax ◴[13 Sep 25 09:51 UTC] No.45230789[source]▶
Gas isn’t climate friendly just because of its debatable attractiveness vs coal. And nuclear comes with catastrophic risks that require large costs to mitigate. Let’s not pretend it’s some panacea. Renewables are better than both.
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1. pqtyw ◴[13 Sep 25 14:32 UTC] No.45232366{3}[source]▶
> And nuclear comes with catastrophic risks that require large costs to mitigate

Those are still very low compared to fossil fuels. I mean in hindsight if that was something people cared about 40-50 years ago we'd be in a much better place climate change wise.