Denmark is considering lifting 40-year-old nuclear power ban, minister says
Denmark is considering lifting 40-year-old nuclear power ban, minister says
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We southern Swedes will never forgive you for forcing us to close down our perfectly working nuclear plant out of your irrational fears.
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This Dane agrees with you.
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This Norwegian, living in Denmark, agrees with both of you!
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I talked to an engineer from one of the nuclear startups and they didn't give a shit about whether you could do nuclear power in Denmark. The most important thing for them was long term policies so industry can make long term plans and investments.
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This is because everything about nuclear energy is long-term. You can't build a nuclear power plant with snap of the fingers, and if things go sour in your country whilst it's operating, you now have a massive environmental and public health liability to deal with.
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Just to be clear: When you build a nuclear plant you always have a massive environmental and public health liability to deal with. It's just that "if things go sour" the liability is also not producing electricity.
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And how will that help? The earliest when an entire country could reasonably expect to rely on nuclear power if they have no legal framework for it at all is probably in 30 years or so (20 years to build at least a few once the legal situation has been cleared up). How does that help the situation at all?
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It helps in 30 years. Which is much better than never.
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But literally any other form of energy generation can be deployed quicker and is cheaper and most are also less centralized.
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Well, then why not put all that money into technology that helps people in a couple of months already?
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Creating a new legal framework with examples to copy and compare is a lot easier than improving an existing one.
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Why tf is the bar “the would country needs to run on nuclear power” or this is a waste? You do realize that good is not the enemy of great right? That moving in the right direction is a good thing… it’s this all or nothing mentality that leaves us paralyzed and ineffective
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Economics of scale. Either you commit to a nuclear industry to have it somewhat less expensive, see France for an example where it is still failing catastrophically. Or you just pay even more money for even less energy.
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