Nuclear power now makes up about 25% of the generation of Georgia Power, the largest unit of Atlanta-based Southern Co.

First U.S. nuclear reactor built from scratch in decades enters commercial operation in Georgia::ATLANTA — A new reactor at a nuclear power plant in Georgia has entered commercial operation, becoming the first new American reactor built from scratch in decades.

  • killa44@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Fission and fusion reactors are really more like in-between renewable and non-renewable. Sure, it relies on materials that are finite, but there is way, way more of that material available in comparison to how much we need.

    Making this distinction is necessary to un-spook people who have gone along with the panic induced by bad media and lazy engineering of the past.

      • Ryumast3r@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 year ago

        I’m spooked by the fact that you have no idea how the US enriches uranium, or the difference between a power pressurized water reactor and a fast “breeder” reactor (if you were thinking of plutonium) or a centrifuge.

        The US enriches uranium using a gas-centrifuge. The US also no longer recycles spent nuclear fuel, but France does.