America aims for nuclear-power renaissance
America aims for nuclear-power renaissance
www.economist.com America aims for nuclear-power renaissance
The Biden administration is pouring billions into the industry. The payoff isn’t certain
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The payoff is zero carbon emissions. Coal is dirty. It causes tens of thousands if deaths every year.
Coal has caused more radiation based deaths than nuclear.
Nuclear energy is really difficult and expensive to produce though. France for example is the biggest European player in nuclear energy, but they actually need to import dirty energy from Germany, because the cooling in their nuclear power plants is super-expensive.
On paper, nuclear power sounds great. In reality though. so much knowhow, money, time, energy, research and public education is needed to implement them.