Why Nuclear Energy is Staging a Comeback in the US

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[@Betweoxwitegan]

Saying fusion "could be as close as 2028" is disingenuous, a fully operational net energy fusion power plant is atleast 2 decades away according to most experts

[@johnrickard8512]

Most experts haven't met helion. They have a prototype functioning warp core in their labs as we speak. It is not yet at unity, but it is only two revisions away.

[@lenOwOo]

They have ingenious design, but then untested tech are exactly things we can't rely on

[@douglasboyle6544]

You really did gloss over the fact that TMI's other reactor operated safely for 34 years after reopening and that the United States hasn't had an incident of similar magnitude since. Nuclear power is so expensive in the United States because we require it to be so safe. The US has only ever had ONE other incident that measured on the INES (International Nuclear Event Scale) and it didn't result in a release of any radioactive material, it stemmed from a procedural issue that was discovered during an inspection. It's also a bit disingenuous to say no reactor has ever been restarted before. Reactors are often shut down for extended periods (read: multiple years) for maintenance and refueling or refitting. When TMI was shutdown it was in fully operational condition and in the middle of it's (re)commissioned lifespan. Yes restarting it isn't as simple as turning on the lights and flipping a switch but it's not as much of an unknown as you make it out to be. I spent the first 18 years of my life living within 20 miles of Yankee Rowe Nuclear Plant, which at the time it shut down in 1991 it was the oldest operating nuclear plant in the US. I'm sorry you're afraid of nuclear power in your backyard, I'm not.

[@amyhart903]

One thing that we need to also do other than getting over the unrealistic / realistic fear of nuclear ⚛ power is recycling nuclear waste

[@MarcABrown-tt1fp]

Do know that france re-enriches the .7+- in its highly radioactive nuclear wastes. granted it is expensive to do but given enough momentum it would make a lot of on site nuclear waste highly valuable in the face of shortages.

[@BackyardBeeKeepingNuevo]

We should have 90% nuclear power and 10% solar, wind and hydro. This can be achieved with Small Modular Reactors and Molten Salt Reactors. This can happen as fast as the government wants or doesn’t want it to happen. We should also be reprocessing our spent nuclear fuel into Mixed Oxide Fuel.

[@JoelOrtiz398]

100% nuclear!

[@BackyardBeeKeepingNuevo]

@ Let’s go nuclear now! We have tons and tons of “spent” nuclear fuel that can be reprocessed that is in dry storage at our nuclear plants and reused. Since the fuel never burns completely off before the reactor is refueled we can power our country into the next century. Also, there is enough proven oil and gas off the coast of Southern California to power our country for the next 300 years.

[@JonneBackhaus]

100% nuclear doesnt work. Nuclear is a baseload, it cant be ramped fast enough for spikes. You need easily variable loads (hydro etc) to supplement it

[@Betweoxwitegan]

Geothermal: The most underrated energy source

[@BackyardBeeKeepingNuevo]

@@Betweoxwitegan I agree. It got blocked in California and Nevada for “Fear of Brine Injection Triggering Earthquakes.” I ball bullcrap on that because you don’t need to bring the hot water to the surface. A large capped borehole with heat exchange tubes using therminol or other high temperature transfer fluid as a primary heat transfer source is more than adequate to generate steam at a sufficient temperature and pressure to run a turbine generator.

[@glennac]

It’s amazing to have lived during the raging anti-nuclear atmosphere of the 80’s and 90’s. Yet, a couple of generations later, so many young people embracing the technology so enthusiastically. 🤔

[@MarcABrown-tt1fp]

Probably because we know far more about the tech than the consumer relations committees were ever willing to give. Can you believe that the Three Mile Island Operators put a sticky note over the indicator for the valve on the cooling loop that was stuck open therefore causing the partial meltdown? Shameful... And even worse was the public relations afterwards over exaggerating the whole thing. Chernobyl being of soviet design naturally meant they cut corners on basic functions (so surprising right?) But even then the RBMK reactor is safe in its meantime to standard operating parameters. It's however highly unstable when you change things on the fly, you have to shut it down completely before making changes unlike what happened in 1986 botching even there own safety protocols. Fukushima daiichi was an exported GE reactor with all its backup power (yes even its emergency batteries) located in the basement below sea level in a country known for its undersea earthquakes and tsunamis. Therefore the cooling pumps lost power. Y'know for all these highly intelligent people with nigh infinite amounts of capitol they seem more interested in saving face than to take accountability for any stupidity that does happen.

[@simplemechanics246]

They got free garbage property. They have no idea what comes next...that blows everything

[@calebblaha7854]

Comparing 3 mile to Chernobyl is actually funny. On a cultural level even. Soviets downplayed real problems every step kf the way while Americans hyped up everything. Also, unrelated but one problem converting coal to nuclear is that the plants are too radioactive to meet with nuclears standards.

[@interestsavvy6813]

New look, I see

[@johnrickard8512]

I'll tell you why they chose that one. It was CHEAP because no one wants it 😂...but it still works, so M$ don't care.