One study suggested that the reactors could produce more nuclear waste than current systems and that they “will use highly corrosive and pyrophoric fuels and coolants that, following irradiation, will become highly radioactive.”
Why can’t this country build a modern reactor? Why do we keep investing in outdated, polluting-style nuclear energy?
Molten Salt reactors are great at recycling spent uranium and don’t really cause pollution. If anything they reduce pollution because they create less nuclear garbage.
Over here in Germany it has already shown that you can’t fully replace nuclear power with green power. What you instead get if you try to shut down all the nuclear reactors is an increase in coal fossil fuel based plants, which are far worse for the environment
So, do you want nuclear power and have us learn how to recycle nuclear waste, or do you want to abolish nuclear power and have us return to fossil fuels? These are your only two options.
Just because Germany didn’t build up green power fast enough, doesn’t mean it’s not possible. Of course it costs a lot of money, but so does building nuclear reactors.
Over here in Germany it has already shown that you can’t fully replace nuclear power with green power. What you instead get if you try to shut down all the nuclear reactors is an increase in coal fossil fuel based plants
There’s more nuance to that. Like reducing solar sector over years, costing upwards of 100k people their job while keeping coal on life support “to protect the jobs” as in 20k or less.
Missing opportunities to improve our tech over decades again and again, knowingly, pandering lobbyists.
I mean maybe it’s impossible to switch to renewables. But Germany is not a proof of that. Germany is proof of coal and conservatism holding back any meaningful change.
