After years of wrangling, France has set out a new energy law that slashes its wind and solar power targets and drops a mandate for state-run energy provider EDF to shut down nuclear plants.

After years of wrangling, France has set out a new energy law that slashes its wind and solar power targets and drops a mandate for state-run energy provider EDF to shut down nuclear plants.

  • Asinus@feddit.orgEnglish
    4·
    2 days ago

    Nuclear … takes care of all of its waste

    That could not be further from the truth.
    There are temporary solutions for the waste at most.

    • Tar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      44·
      2 days ago

      Tell me you don’t understand waste handling without saying you don’t understand waste handling. There are “temporary” solutions for ALL waste ever.

      Nuclear waste is such a tiny little problem, that stacking every spent fuel rod ever, inside it’s storage cask, in one pile wouldn’t even fill a decent soccer stadium. If you just looked at the fuel itself, the same waste wouldn’t even reach your knees. If you powered your entire life with nuclear power (and I mean transportation, manufacturing, heating, lighting, etc) with nuclear power, the resulting spent nuclear fuel for your entire family would be slightly less than a 1-inch cube.

      I can’t stress enough how nuclear waste is a total non-issue that was invented by the fossil fuel industry and misguided idiots who understand neither basic physics or (much less basic) general waste handling.

      • Asinus@feddit.orgEnglish
        23·
        2 days ago

        Without sinking to your level I will limit myself to say:
        I am not the idiot here.

        • Tar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          42·
          2 days ago

          I wasn’t refering to you personally.

          I was refering mostly to the anti-nuclear crusaders from the 70’s and 80’s who were so anti-war, they figured “Nuclear bomb bad, so nuclear bad”, and decided that civilian powerplants were building bombs without any evidence (or even basic understanding) and thus everything related to nuclear power was the devil and needed to stop.

          Of course, if you do believe that or their propaganda, I actually was talking to you. The maths aren’t hard though, you can do them yourself. The nuclear industry is incredibly transparent and you can google almost anything. That, of course, makes it very prone to lies and deliberate misinterpretation, for example when people say there are huge amount of nuclear waste! (which is sort-of-true, but the overwhelmingly vast majority of it is low-level).

          • Asinus@feddit.orgEnglish
            31·
            2 days ago

            You speak of lies and misinterpration and yet you say waste is a non-issue. And even low-level radiation waste (which is a lot of material if you tear down the whole plant at some point) has to be dealt with. Thats expensive and that’s part of the cost of nuclear energy. Even if the operators will try to push that to the taxpayer.

            But yes, they are transparent. So much so, that even the operators publish lists of reasons about why they don’t want to build new plants or continue to run the existing ones:

            German source