Nuclear power now makes up about 25% of the generation of Georgia Power, the largest unit of Atlanta-based Southern Co.

First U.S. nuclear reactor built from scratch in decades enters commercial operation in Georgia::ATLANTA — A new reactor at a nuclear power plant in Georgia has entered commercial operation, becoming the first new American reactor built from scratch in decades.

  • Gamey@lemmy.worldEnglish
    110·
    11 months ago

    People will kill me for it but to all the disgusting idiots in the comment section here just know that nuclear power isn’t renewable, that we can’t even cover a fraction of the energy we need with it, that there isn’t a single proofen way to actually store the waste (just temporary facilities) and that the cost of building them (especially in the west) is far to high to stop any timw soon!!!

    • joel_feila@lemmy.worldEnglish
      41·
      11 months ago

      well on a long enough scale the whole of earth is temporary. That said yeah we can store it in container that survive a train crashing into them. At that point how much more safer can you be.

      • Gamey@lemmy.worldEnglish
        21·
        11 months ago

        All solutions taht go byond theory manage one or maybe two hundread years, the rest is pure fiction and possibly won’t ever work…

          • Gamey@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            11 months ago

            Because people like to pretend that we can dispose of it in old mines and it will bind to the correct materials but that’s the theory part because rn we store it in very temporary containers that are desinged for decades not centuries

      • Gamey@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        11 months ago
        1. Yes but there also is a lot lesa of it on eath
        2. No that’s just wrong, the global supply of usable Uranium couldn’t even supply the current world energy consumption for more than a few years
        3. All of that isn’t wrong except that the concret isn’t actually proper storage, it’s desinged to hold the material for a few decates and the proper storage solutions (stuff it’s supposed to bind to long term in old mines) is in a pure theory stage and hasn’t been done before
        4. The initial costs are high but a joke in comparison with disposal and deconstruction costs so they aren’t the actual issue in the cost factor and unlike the later actually funded by the company operating a plant