Experts say world is ‘past peak fossil power’ but warn against uneven development of energy projects

Experts say world is ‘past peak fossil power’ but warn against uneven development of energy projects

Nuclear power generation is likely to break records in 2025 as more countries invest in reactors to fuel the shift to a low-carbon global economy, while renewable energy is likely to overtake coal as a power source early next year, data has shown.

China, India, Korea and Europe are likely to have new reactors come on stream, while several in Japan are also forecast to return to generation, and French output should increase, according to a report on the state of global electricity markets published by the International Energy Agency (IEA) on Wednesday.

Electricity demand is also expected to increase around the world, fuelled largely by the move to a low-carbon economy. Electric vehicles and heat pumps, as well as many low-carbon industrial processes, require electricity rather than oil and gas.

  • Waryle@jlai.lu
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    10 months ago

    And yet, EDF has built the current french nuclear reactor fleet without any subsidies, and made billions of euros of net profit every year for decades, excepted in 2022. It is feasible. Current failures are not inherently tied to the nuclear technology. It’s political.

    You cannot even put a price tag on nuclear storage because it’s never been done before

    Plain false. Cigéo will work for 100 years for about 25 billions of euros. That’s dirt cheap. And you now why it’s dirt cheap? Because the entire high level radioactive waste produced by a country like France for 60 years fit in a 16 meters wide cube. And most of it will be re-used in future EPRs.

    • Diplomjodler@feddit.de
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      10 months ago

      Wikipedia:

      On 17 January 2023, Andra submitted the application for authorisation to create the Cigéo site to the Ministry of Energy Transition. The Nuclear Safety Authority has five years to examine the file and decide whether or not to authorise the creation of the site.

      So maybe they’ll start building this thing in five years. OK. And we all know projects like this always come in in time and in budget, right? The problem of nuclear waste storage constantly gets handwaved away by the fanboys but we’re nowhere near any kind of solution.

      • Waryle@jlai.lu
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        10 months ago

        This cube contains 98% of the radioactivity in all French nuclear waste, produced over 60 years.

        • 90+% of it can be re-used in the future EPRs and 4th gen reactors, and transformed to low-level waste which are way less radioactive.
        • The most radioactive waste are those which deplete the fastest. You don’t have to store those ones for millions of years, we’re talking about decades or 2-3 centuries at most.
        • It’s sealed and not going anywhere and it can definitely wait years, even decades, for something like Cigéo to be built.

        Stop pretending it’s some kind of unsolvable problem, nuclear engineers have solved it decades ago, it’s just anti-nuclear folks that oppose all solutions provided.

        • Diplomjodler@feddit.de
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          10 months ago

          90+% of it can be re-used in the future EPRs and 4th gen reactors, and transformed to low-level waste which are way less radioactive.

          None of this stuff exists and there is no timeline as when it might be made into reality. Just another pipe dream.

          The most radioactive waste are those which deplete the fastest. You don’t have to store those ones for millions of years, we’re talking about decades or 2-3 centuries at most.

          So how are you going to separate out the technetium? Just because something is doable in a lab, doesn’t mean it’s doable on an industrial scale.

          It’s sealed and not going anywhere and it can definitely wait years, even decades, for something like Cigéo to be built.

          Yeah, let’s let the future generations sort it out. At the same time, let’s work at bringing down civilisation. What could go wrong?

          Stop pretending it’s some kind of unsolvable problem, nuclear engineers have solved it decades ago,

          No they haven’t. Not at all. You obviously have no clue what you’re talking about.

          it’s just anti-nuclear folks that oppose all solutions provided.

          Yeah yeah yeah, same old bullshit. The reality is that this stuff just doesn’t work economically.