Post AvfRF3rlSj3JpftOWe by collectifission@greennuclear.online
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 (DIR) Post #AvfRF3rlSj3JpftOWe by collectifission@greennuclear.online
       2025-06-30T20:11:21Z
       
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       This is very much Hitchhikers to the Galaxy-esque.https://uk.news.yahoo.com/first-uk-residents-face-compulsory-071634795.html
       
 (DIR) Post #AvfRF4cYekU0AnmlSi by EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy
       2025-06-30T20:14:30Z
       
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       @collectifission My home is going to be forcibly purchased soonish and bulldozed.  Nothing to do with renewables (except that mine will have to go).  Significant infrastructure changes sometimes has this entrained.
       
 (DIR) Post #AvfRF5WDJp0CxPpDDE by publius@mastodon.sdf.org
       2025-06-30T20:40:46Z
       
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       @EarthOrgUK @collectifission While that is true, the fact that all UK electricity needs can demonstrably be supplied from the few square kilometers recently or still occupied by nuclear and coal-fired power stations makes it seem somewhat absurd ; and the fact that UK peak electrical system loads typically come on winter nights, when the solar contribution is precisely zero, makes it seem like unnecessary cruelty.#AtomicPowerToThePeople
       
 (DIR) Post #AvfS0Y4IzMMD76Oyno by EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy
       2025-06-30T20:49:27Z
       
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       @publius @collectifission Transmission and distribution infrastructure causes upset, mining continues to displace lots of people and poison land and has other externalities; solar is helping save EDF's bacon in France with nukes wavering in hot weather which waa what I assume what appeared to be ~6GW of exports from GB yesterday night (though I was only looking at NDF vs TSDF, so could be wrong).
       
 (DIR) Post #AvfV0XEyMnPOPN4opk by publius@mastodon.sdf.org
       2025-06-30T21:23:04Z
       
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       @EarthOrgUK @collectifission Solar and wind require several times the amount of T&D infrastructure that nuclear needs, especially when existing sites where the lines are already in place can be used.According to reliable life-cycle analyses, nuclear needs about as much mining as solar and wind, or quite a bit less once we add a few "breeder" reactors into the system and close the fuel cycle. There is not strictly a need to mine any more uranium at all, as I have shown elsewhere.
       
 (DIR) Post #AvfXvJFBHJAlPfNFDc by publius@mastodon.sdf.org
       2025-06-30T21:55:43Z
       
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       @EarthOrgUK @collectifission Of course all this is well known. You hardly need me to re-hash it, anymore than you need me to remind you that French nuclear power loses very little of its potential annual production to excessive heat, and virtually none of that for engineering reasons. If it were a serious problem, EdF could meet their water discharge temperature targets by building a few more cooling towers.