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Desalination as cities in the deserts are running out of water and power, two birds one stone.Desalination to get your cooling water? that will raise the already high nuke running costs into astronomical-vile.
See here, where having two independent water systems means you use almost twice s much water.
And as the planet heats-up, the temperature delta available becomes harder to deal with (and plants have to shut-down often)
Nuclear Power Plants Are Struggling to Stay Cool
Climate change is reducing output and raising safety concerns at nuclear facilities from France to the US. But experts say adapting is possible—and necessary.www.wired.com
As-opposed to wind, which needs no such cooling And Solar (thanks to electrostatics may turn-out not to need very much water to keep panels clean in dusty regions):
I'm sorry man, but nuclear has been heading in the wrong direction fr several decades. And, aside from France, no other country has found a way to make reprocessed fuel the same cost as grabbing virgin fuel from the soil (and at that price, nobody will buy it)
Aside from France, who has the cleanest air from their massive nuclear power use, sells and stabilize the grids of neighboring “green” countries.
Nuclear Power in France - World Nuclear Association
France derives about 70% of its electricity from nuclear energy. This is due to a long-standing policy based on energy security. Government policy is to reduce this to 50% by 2035. France is the world's largest net exporter of electricity due to its very low cost of nuclear generation.
world-nuclear.org
A few hit pieces from wired or Bloomberg about how it’s been hot so delta T means their plants are slightly less efficient…. Compared to any other power generation system that uses heat? So what? Build 2 more with 0 emissions and you still have 0 emissions.
French Nuclear Power Crisis Frustrates Europe’s Push to Quit Russian Energy (Published 2022)
France typically exports electricity, but now it risks blackouts and a need for imported power because of problems at the state nuclear operator.
This is at least mostly honest about the energy crisis in the EU, France has been using reactors from the 80s without any major reworking and selling power to other countries at too cheap of prices. Nuclear get 3 billion in subsidies for decommissioning, fossil fuels get 50 billion. Maybe take that 50 from the last 10 years and invest in actual clean new nuclear….
Aside from the fact that we do need more plutonium for deep space exploration and breeder reactors can reuse waste and or create said plutonium and are vastly safer to operate than designs from the 60 years ago which are still in use.
Aside from all the research that has told us subsidized solar, wind and other is worse than nuclear, and if the subsidies went to nuclear the cost drops, and the whole overarching theme is “green energy” but we aren’t using the greenest energy on a hope and prayer that enough other technologies will come along to save us while we continue to burn millions of tons of coal and now natural gas as well.
Your way of thinking is very Bureaucratic, and is why we are in this mess with climate change. Always the bandaid, we need to have a realistic view of what we can do in the next 20 years if we start now, not 50 years from now when we might finally have the technology and resources and a half dead planet almost out of easily accessible hydrocarbons and carbon based resources.
I’m on my phone so there may be some typos.
