> Nuclear power plants are vast construction project.
Only water cooled reactors really have that problem. Nuclear plants could be much smaller. But innovation has just done very badly.
Nuclear scale, regulation is its own worst enemy and the social movements against it didn't help.
In the US for a while they did nuclear right as well. Nuclear always does well if you actually build many in a row. Learning effects are massive in large projects. Look at any countries that build many nuclear plants, it always works.
We could literally have had 100% green energy 40 years ago no problem. It was cheap coal that prevented that. We would be way better of having built nuclear.
And Switzerland, Sweden and others have successful networks with nuclear that are very green. Also parts of Canada.
Only water cooled reactors really have that problem. Nuclear plants could be much smaller. But innovation has just done very badly.
Nuclear scale, regulation is its own worst enemy and the social movements against it didn't help.
In the US for a while they did nuclear right as well. Nuclear always does well if you actually build many in a row. Learning effects are massive in large projects. Look at any countries that build many nuclear plants, it always works.
We could literally have had 100% green energy 40 years ago no problem. It was cheap coal that prevented that. We would be way better of having built nuclear.
And Switzerland, Sweden and others have successful networks with nuclear that are very green. Also parts of Canada.