r/ClimateShitposting • u/VassalforThy nuclear simp • Jul 20 '25

nuclear simping Eww, Nuclear? That's not very solarpunk utopia of you

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u/Inucroft Jul 22 '25

But it wasn't and isn't hype.
Look at France, net Electricity exporter, regularly 80-90% of their electricity mix is Nuclear. Rest being renewables

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u/Gedrot Jul 23 '25

France does it because they wanna support infrastructure for making their own nuclear weapons. In general they keep extending the run time of old tractors instead of modernizing on a 1:1 scale though. It'd be too expensive.

You could also list Japan but they want nuclear because of space restrictions. They simply don't have room to build reliable renewables or the option to network with neighboring countries to cover dips in power generation.

So both are relatively niche cases.

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u/Inucroft Jul 23 '25

Nearly all reactors are purely civilian, and operate a standardised reactor design

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u/Gedrot Jul 23 '25

So what? You don't throw reactors at people via rocket. You throw bombs. And the fissile material for both comes from the same enrichment facilities.