Europe has survived 3 energy shocks in 4 years. The only way out is to stop buying power from its enemies | Fortune
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Oil above $100. Gas prices up 70%. Every crisis has a different trigger—and the same vulnerability. Europe must become the world's first Electro-Continent.
  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Uranium-based nuclear power isn’t ideal, but thorium-based nuclear power shows a lot of promise, because thorium is both way more common than uranium, and way harder to weaponize.

    • nlgranger@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      20 hours ago

      It is the other way around though: because it cannot be weaponized, there was no incentive to develop an industrial reactor and a supply chain. The remaining technical and scientific challenges on this technology are non-trivial too as I understand, so it will be a few decades before we see one in action even if we took the decision to invest in it today.

    • WoodScientist@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      20 hours ago

      Thorium reactor rely on transmuting thorium into a form of uranium, a form which itself can be extracted and weaponized…