"In fact, building new reactors, or operating most existing ones, makes #ClimateChange worse compared with spending the same money on more-climate-effective ways to deliver the same energy services."
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"... in America, strong views are held across the political spectrum on whether #nuclear power is essential or merely helpful in protecting Earth’s climate-and both views are wrong."https://beyondnuclearinternational.org/2020/09/13/nuclear-reactors-make-climate-change-worse/ …
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Our society built coal-fired power plants by counting cost but not carbon (C). Nuclear advocates defend their preference by counting C but not cost. But to protect
#climate, we must save the most C at the least cost & in the least time, counting all 3 variables—C & cost & time.Afficher cette discussion -
"Since in reality money and time are both limited, our priorities in providing energy services must be informed by relative cost and speed. Lower cost saves more carbon per dollar. Faster deployment saves more carbon per year. We need both."
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"Nuclear owners strive to beat coal & gas while their allies often disparage or suppress renewables. Yet most US nuclear plants are uneconomic just to run, so many are closing."
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"To keep milking those old assets instead, their powerful owners seek & often get multi-billion-dollar bailouts from malleable state legislatures for about a tenth of the US nuclear fleet so far."
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"Such replacement of market choices with political logrolling distorts prices, crowds out competitors, slows innovation, reduces transparency, rewards undue influence, introduces bias, picks winners, invites corruption..."
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"and even threatens to destroy the competitive regional power markets where
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"Yet many political leaders think climate’s urgency demands every option, including preserving nuclear power at any cost. So what is that cost, construed in the narrowest economic terms?" Read on!https://beyondnuclearinternational.org/2020/09/13/nuclear-reactors-make-climate-change-worse/ …
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This headline is a lie. This analysis is misleading, because it neglects everything except a summary statistic of cost-effectiveness. The actual issue is how to handle peak loads. This is the same kind of analysis that led Germany to build dozens of coal peaker plants.
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