• 0x10097110@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 year ago

    Since I don’t see it mentioned anywhere: Ignoring the economical and environmental issues that nuclear power still has compared to actual renewables, it has a geostrategic problem: Uranium is a geologically limited resources, which just creates political and economical dependencies. And since Russia has a lot of it, keeping working sanctions against them alive is pretty problematic, if you need to buy your energy resources from them. See gas supply.

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      1 year ago

      It’s not like Russia has all of it, there are more uranium in the rest of the world, but it has full supply chain.

    • Iceblade@lemdit.com
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      1 year ago

      New archetypes of NP can run on depleted fuel. There’s enough of that around for more than 50yrs of power.