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by clemensley 1436 days ago
> Want to guess where most fuel rods came from? (spoiler: Russia)

Can you back that up? To me it looks like only 5% of uranium is in Russia (https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/uranium-p...)

> They wouldn't have saved much, if any, gas burning

Compare to coal (that seems to be the tradeoff in Germany) nuclear energy kills 820x more people per produced energy unit. 820x the number of human lives lost.

C02 emissions are about 250x higher https://ourworldindata.org/safest-sources-of-energy#:~:text=....

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> Can you back that up? To me it looks like only 5% of uranium is in Russia

It's not about mining. You need to enrich uranium first, and a massive portion of world's industrial capacity for that is in Russia: https://www.energypolicy.columbia.edu/research/commentary/re... - "Russia had around a 46 percent share of global enrichment capacity in 2018".

You are linking to uranium production, not the production of fuel rods.

And yes, the nuclear power plants produce less CO2 than coal. No doubt about that. But that is the consequence of a decision over 10 years ago. Unfortunately, the same government who decided that, didn't built up renewables at the required speed, actually slowed down the buildup of renewables.

This is going to change now rapidly.