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by Manuel_D
1776 days ago
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> Nuclear power emits only a little less co2 than "clean" combined cycle nat gas when you account for the massive amount of concrete and energy for construction and decommissioning (aka lifetime emissions which is a stat rarely used for this reason). This is far from correct. Yes, concrete production releases CO2, but that only happens once over the 50-80+ year lifetime of a nuclear power plant. Carbon emissions from nuclear are a fraction of fossil fuels [1]. They need to have a separate magnified section to meaningfully show them on the graph: https://www.carbonbrief.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Scree... 1. https://www.carbonbrief.org/solar-wind-nuclear-amazingly-low... And as mentioned earlier, fuels and industrial processes are where hydrogen comes into play: nuclear can produce hydrogen without C02 emissions through thermal generation. |
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