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First planned small nuclear reactor plant in the US has been canceled::NuScale and its primary partner give up on its first installation.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Nuclear stans? Us vs them thinking here.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Yes my political opponents are the people I disagree with. I don't see your point here.

Fixing our energy demands so they stop fucking the planet doesn't require us to hold hands and sing together, we just have to invest in the proper energy infrastructure. Arguing about what energy infrastructure is proper is a good way to make sure we are looking at all sides of this.

Edit: man, quiet downvotes annoy me. Please, let me know what I said that drew your ire so I can determine whether I've made an ass of myself or if we just don't agree.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I’m not the one who downvoted you, but I understand where you’re coming from. I just think that both technologies are useful. Nuclear has clear advantages over all fossil fuels, so it would be a good thing to invest in. This would be in addition to solar, wind and battery farms.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Apparently most people from this assumed I was anti-nuclear, when actually I am just very pro-renewables. I don't really have a problem with nuclear, not unless it is used improperly or inefficiently. I just recently had seen many arguments on lemmy where a lot of people seemed to be against using renewables in favor of nuclear.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I have no idea why you would want to pick one over the other when both have their specific uses and will both be needed to replace fossil fuels for electricity generation. I'm just lucky enough to live in a city that's almost entirely hydroelectric.