• doggle@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    If renewables are an option you should definitely go for them, but we as a species are pretty much at manufacturing capacity for them. That capacity is being increased, but for now it makes sense to do nuclear in parallel.

    Renewables also have the issue of storage, and not all locations are as suitable for wind or solar.

    There are cases where nuclear makes more sense, and especially in the short term we need anything that will get us away from fossil fuels.

    • oyo@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      You could build an entirely new solar, wind, and battery supply chain from the mines to the factories in a quarter of the time it takes to build a single nuclear plant.