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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: 0s | 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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kpmcc ◴[13 Sep 25 07:58 UTC] No.45230204[source]▶
What is climate friendly about natural gas?
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jeroenhd ◴[13 Sep 25 10:48 UTC] No.45231028[source]▶
It's cleaner than coal and oil. If you upgrade a coal plant to a gas plant, that's a step forward against climate change.

Yes, we'd be much better off with wind farms, solar plants, and nuclear reactors, but a step forward is a step forward.

Countries like Poland, running mostly on coal, would get cleaner air and contribute less to global warming if they were to upgrade their power plants to anything non-coal.

Replace them with nuclear generators and they'd also significantly reduce the amount of radiation people would be exposed to.

It's not that gas is that good, it's more that coal is that bad.

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zekrioca ◴[13 Sep 25 18:09 UTC] No.45234088[source]▶
Clever use of the adjective “cleaner”. Try replacing it with “less dirty, but still pollutant and toxic” to see an alternative, correct version of what you have written.
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1. good_vs_great ◴[15 Sep 25 20:22 UTC] No.45254470{3}[source]▶
You can put absolutist restrictions on things like that but every time you enter a cost-benefit calculus with such restrictions already in place you're going to end up with more cost and less benefit