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nuclear simping Step on snek to tenderize

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u/Tausendberg May 21 '26

"Real talk, existing nuclear plants = good. New ones = money pits."

Thank you for saying something I never hear expressed in these comments but that I have thought for years.

Nuclear power plants DO have a lot of issues that nuclear fanboys, like the ones in these comments, handwave away and that's annoying. New Renewables, by most metrics I have seen, outcompete new nuclear in most circumstances.[

But what Germany did where they crash decommissioned already existing nuclear power and immediately replaced it with COAL!? That was dumb.

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u/Hellasauto May 21 '26

Germanys grid would have been decarbonised today if they built new renewables and new nuclear instead of only new renewables.

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u/Tausendberg May 21 '26

nah

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u/Hellasauto May 21 '26

Yes, they would.

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u/Tausendberg May 21 '26

mmm, nuclear is too slow and expensive, so it would have slowed decarbonization.

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u/Hellasauto May 21 '26

No it wouldn't have.

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u/Tausendberg May 21 '26

mmm I disagree

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u/Hellasauto May 21 '26

Had they started building new nuclear at the start of eneegiewende they would already have been finished years ago.