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by dukoid 1462 days ago
If you can't insure something reasonably it's not economical. The risk is just externalized.
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acidburnNSA 1462 days ago
If fossil and biofuel had to insure against air pollution health effects they directly cause (8 million deaths/yr according to WHO), and climate change, then clean/carbon-free nuclear fission would absolutely dominate today.
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ncmncm 1461 days ago
Fossil and bio fuel are not what nukes and nuke construction are competing with, so mentioning them at all is an attempt to distract.

We are not distracted.

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acidburnNSA 1461 days ago
The entire energy project right now is to decarbonize rapidly. The world energy mix is more than 80% fossil and biofuel. Nuclear is competing with fossil and biofuel.

https://ourworldindata.org/energy-mix

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ncmncm 1461 days ago
No, nuke construction competes with renewables construction, and nuke operation with renewables operation. Nukes are absolutely obliterated on both.

Only political bias allows nukes to continue.

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