Large scale nuclear power plants take hundreds of millions or billions of dollars of investment and loads of time to build. It’s more likely that any nuclear revolution is going to come in the form of smaller scale micro reactors.
The average construction time for a plant in the west is what… 17 years? Powering even our current needs would deplete all known resources (including those in the ground) within less than a decade. Nuclear is a pipe dream and the mining for it is dirty and leaves the earth polluted and the people and ecosystems nearby suffering long after mining is completed. SRSLY Wrong just did a great episode on clean energy that has a good part about nuclear energy also, I recommend everyone to listen to it, and if possible read the book by the guest also.
Smaller reactors that can be placed at sites of existing fossile fuel plants (that already have the necessary grid connection) do indeed sound like an interesting option. However the fast advances in grid battery storage at those same sites as well as potential novel geothermal drilling methods aiming to do the same are more likely to arrive in the short to medium term than those proposed small nuclear reactors.
Large scale nuclear power plants take hundreds of millions or billions of dollars of investment and loads of time to build. It’s more likely that any nuclear revolution is going to come in the form of smaller scale micro reactors.
The average construction time for a plant in the west is what… 17 years? Powering even our current needs would deplete all known resources (including those in the ground) within less than a decade. Nuclear is a pipe dream and the mining for it is dirty and leaves the earth polluted and the people and ecosystems nearby suffering long after mining is completed. SRSLY Wrong just did a great episode on clean energy that has a good part about nuclear energy also, I recommend everyone to listen to it, and if possible read the book by the guest also.
Smaller reactors that can be placed at sites of existing fossile fuel plants (that already have the necessary grid connection) do indeed sound like an interesting option. However the fast advances in grid battery storage at those same sites as well as potential novel geothermal drilling methods aiming to do the same are more likely to arrive in the short to medium term than those proposed small nuclear reactors.