All this only holds true for traditional large scale commercial reactors.
Newer large scale reactors designs don’t require any power to cool once the reaction is shutdown (which is automatic if power is lost) and will not melt down if a loss of power happens.
Dedicated trust funds help pay for shutdown and yes, a new reactor would need to be built. This cost is significantly less than oil, gas, or coal over the long-term. Upfront cost with nuclear are higher, but only because of the large scale projects we currently utilize.
Sounds like a burden? Let me ask you how they control the pollution from Gas, Oil, or Coal. Trick question, they don’t really control it at all except for some scrubbing. Please realize that 250,000 people die (low estimate) from pollution related to power generation every year.
So every year non-nuclear fossil based power generation is killing a quarter of a million people. I would like to hear how you logically deal with this in your argument against nuclear.
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All this only holds true for traditional large scale commercial reactors.
Newer large scale reactors designs don’t require any power to cool once the reaction is shutdown (which is automatic if power is lost) and will not melt down if a loss of power happens.
Dedicated trust funds help pay for shutdown and yes, a new reactor would need to be built. This cost is significantly less than oil, gas, or coal over the long-term. Upfront cost with nuclear are higher, but only because of the large scale projects we currently utilize.
As far as containing nuclear waste.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onkalo_spent_nuclear_fuel_repository
Sounds like a burden? Let me ask you how they control the pollution from Gas, Oil, or Coal. Trick question, they don’t really control it at all except for some scrubbing. Please realize that 250,000 people die (low estimate) from pollution related to power generation every year.
So every year non-nuclear fossil based power generation is killing a quarter of a million people. I would like to hear how you logically deal with this in your argument against nuclear.