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Comment by 8bitsrule

Nothing has changed since the early days. A helluva complicated and expensive way to boil water.

"At present, atomic power presents an exceptionally costly and inconvenient means of obtaining energy … This is expensive power, not cheap power as the public has been led to believe." — C. G. Suits, Director of Research, General Electric, who was operating the Hanford reactors, 1951. ( Ref: Power from the Atom - An Appraisal, Nucleonics, Feb. 1951 )

https://www.ieer.org/pubs/atomicmyths.html

Carbon-Free and Nuclear-Free: https://ieer.org/projects/carbon-free-nuclear-free/

parent 8bitsrule 3 years ago

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