Nuclear Power Related Media Thread, page-3944

Ha I see your point. Speaking of which, it seems times are indeed a-changing. How's this from the HuffPost (a notably left/progressive media outlet in the US) in a recent article about the Niger coup:

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The incident highlights one of nuclear energy’s key advantages. Natural gas and oil need to be constantly replenished with fresh supply, giving producers ― particularly countries that control the taps of hydrocarbons buried beneath their land ― tremendous leverage over those nations whose economies would screech to a halt without fuel.

While solar and wind run off of free sunlight and airflow, a dark, still sky means no electricity, making it virtually impossible for any major economy to run exclusively on those renewables without some kind of backup sources. And the supply chains for the processed metals needed to make solar panels, wind turbines and batteries to store that electricity to use later run overwhelmingly through China, which has recently threatened to cut off certain exports to geopolitical rivals.

But reactors generate huge volumes of energy regardless of weather or time of day ― and do so using relatively minimal quantities of uranium. Depending on how they’re operated, they require refueling only once every few years.

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The whole article is actually a pretty decent read in its own right imo