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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Mines take a lot longer than 10 years, as do power-plants (the whole thing starting at permit submission and ending at last reactor coming online). 2045 is optimistic.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, 10 years was a best case scenario, where you basically already have the plans drawn up and are ready to build. Not sure what your point about mines is, I'm assuming they'd be importing uranium?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Still requires expanding uranium production somewhere, and likely also buying from Russia.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, the Russia issue is kind of hilarious. You're trying to reduce fossil fuel use so you're not dependent on Russia for energy, so instead you're going to use nuclear, which uses fuel rods almost exclusively refined by Russia.

Not sure if new mining would be needed, but I guess that depends on what happens in Niger.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sweden has uranium reserves and produced it's own uranium in the 60-s. Though I think laws currently prevent mining.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I'm sure they'll take just as much care for indigenous reindeer herders when choosing where to poison thousands of km^2 of land as they did when using them for hostage shield politics to sabotage the wind rollout.

Or is an entire country supposed to run indefinitely on the single year worth of reserves already known?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Anti nuclear sentiment is pro-fossil fuel. You're inventing problems and prolonging dependance on oil.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Cancelling low carbon energy and making vague promises of spending 10x as much is definitely not a pro fossil fuel move /s

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A low carbon energy source is useless if it cannot cover peak loads, which are now being covered by fossil fuels. Years of greenie obstructionism now means that the nuclear plants that would have been built are now missing, and the solutions offered by the anti-nuclear lobby seems to be "let them have energy poverty, brownouts and outright blackouts are not our problem". This will happen once coal and oil plants shut down, renewables alone cannot cover the demands, especially at peak load.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Good thing your straw man isn't what is being suggested by anyone anywhere.