VioletTea@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 16 hours agoFrance’s nuclear fleet gives it one of the world’s lowest-carbon electricity gridsourworldindata.orgexternal-linkmessage-square57fedilinkarrow-up1216
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minus-squaretechnocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 hours ago lowest-carbon Ok, now do nuclear waste.
minus-squarePhoenixz@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·25 minutes agoRelatively tiny amounts that can be stored safely Its still better than the output of coal which ironically enough output more radioactivity than nuclear powerplants
minus-squarezaphod@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·17 minutes agoIf only there were an option without the carbon and without the uranium.
minus-squareRamRabbit@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-230 minutes agoYou are talking about input materials for reactor fuel. We are told almost daily about how bad climate change is; why would new fuel inputs be anything notable as nuclear power de-carbonizes the grid?
minus-squarewholookshere@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 hour agoCanada developed reactors to run on waste fuel from other reactors. CANDU 9 IIRC
minus-squarerollerbang@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 hour agoI didn’t check, does it say that waste management is not included?
Ok, now do nuclear waste.
Relatively tiny amounts that can be stored safely
Its still better than the output of coal which ironically enough output more radioactivity than nuclear powerplants
If only there were an option without the carbon and without the uranium.
You are talking about input materials for reactor fuel. We are told almost daily about how bad climate change is; why would new fuel inputs be anything notable as nuclear power de-carbonizes the grid?
Canada developed reactors to run on waste fuel from other reactors.
CANDU 9 IIRC
I didn’t check, does it say that waste management is not included?