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Nuclear energy key to decarbonising Europe, says EESC

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129 points mpweiher | 2 comments | 12 Dec 25 17:32 UTC | HN request time: 0.002s | source
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DarkNova6 ◴[12 Dec 25 19:40 UTC] No.46247903[source]▶
So you want to create a completely new industry. From the ground. With all existing experts having retired. Demanding high quality, no-fault tolerance production. Dependent on resources not found in Europe.

Look, I love nuclear technology. But time has moved on. The costs to rebuild this industry is astronomical and means we lose out on key-future technology like batteries.

Edit: But then there are bombs. And especially French love their nukes due national security. This is the only reason to keep pushing for nuclear, since Russia, the US and China are not gonna change direction on this either. But the very least we could do is be honest about it.

Edit 2: Changed from "World has moved on" to "time has moved on", since evidently China has invested for a good 2 decades to build their own fully functional nuclear-industry. Proving my point that it takes dedicated investment, network effects and scale to rebuild this industry. After all, they too want to mass produce nukes.

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BigTTYGothGF ◴[12 Dec 25 20:46 UTC] No.46248710[source]▶
> But the world has moved on.

China's got 27 reactors under construction right now: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_China

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derriz ◴[12 Dec 25 20:59 UTC] No.46248876[source]▶
In the first 5 months of this year, China added 198 GW of solar PV and 46 GW of wind. Nuclear is a small side-hustle for them.
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pyrale ◴[12 Dec 25 21:06 UTC] No.46248953[source]▶
nameplate capacity of different generation sources can't be compared, if only because capacity factor is not comparable.
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1. t_tsonev ◴[12 Dec 25 21:50 UTC] No.46249429[source]▶
But you can compare generated power, right?

> In the 12 months to June 2025, wind and solar (2,073 TWh) generated more electricity than all other clean sources (nuclear, hydro and bioenergy) combined (1,936 TWh). Just four years ago, wind and solar generated half as much electricity as other clean sources combined.

https://ember-energy.org/latest-insights/china-energy-transi...

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2. bigbadfeline ◴[12 Dec 25 23:20 UTC] No.46250245[source]▶
So, both types generated approximately the same amount of power and it still isn't enough, one type cannot replace the other, they complement each other, that's why China is building more of each type, they know what they're doing.