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I know HN is just desperate for that i-told-you-so moment when fission rises from irrelevancy to save us all from climate change, but it's just not going to happen. Look at this figure [1]. The amount of proposed solar and wind and battery projects in the United States at the end of 2021 was 1000s of time larger than the amount of proposed nuclear power projects. And one big difference is the renewables are actually built, while the fission projects never make progress. Fission's purported resurgence is a press release blitz being coordinated by defense contractor grifters who have no higher ambitions than raking a few tens of billions of dollars in consulting fees out of government budgets.

1: https://emp.lbl.gov/queues

parent jeffbee 4 years ago

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