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SarahD

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Sat May 4, 2024, 10:03 PM May 2024

Nukes are tbe future. Suck it up, buttercup. [View all]

Looks like the big challenges to replacing fossil fuel generated electricity with nuclear generated electricity will be financial, not technical. We are going to do this, so we might as well accept that going carbonless is a social effort that requires spreading the cost across the whole of the population, rather than allowing individual utility companies to place the burden on rate payers.
https://blog.ucsusa.org/edwin-lyman/five-things-the-nuclear-bros-dont-want-you-to-know-about-small-modular-reactors/

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