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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: 0.32s | source
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mentalgear ◴[13 Sep 25 13:34 UTC] No.45231975[source]▶
France, heavily invested in nuclear, now has to shut down their reactors each summer as, due to climate change, the cooling water from rivers cant be used any more to cool the reactors. So much about being future proof. And let's not even get into the argument why no private company ever financed a nuclear reactor, but only build them with huge subsidies from states. Hint: it is because they are completely uneconomically. (and dont come with the argument of experimental small scale reactors, they are all just experimental and none proven)
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1. draven ◴[13 Sep 25 16:26 UTC] No.45233313[source]▶
The water can still be used to cool down the reactors. But the water injected back into the river would then be too hot for the river's ecosystem.