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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/51898350
Their fusion and fission work is very impressive,” the Microsoft Corp. co-founder said of China’s nuclear innovation efforts. The country is investing more in fusion “than the rest of the world put together, times two
If we invest in grid energy storage, we might be able to skip nuclear entirely. In the meanwhile though, we’re kinda stuck. The way I see it, nuclear power is an intermediary step that is hard to avoid.
We have all the tools we need, they are easier and built faster than NPPs. So I don’t see your point.
Political decision making is the only real bottleneck here. It’s not a technical issue.
Even if this was true, good luck fixing it. Meanwhile, the renewable equivalent of around 80 reactors was built last year.
I think nuclear power will inevitably continue to go wrong (once in a while) as long as humans use it, and it could contribute to the extinction of the planet if overused, so I hope it only goes wrong in ways that result in people not using it where it’s not needed, instead of ways that result in no life surviving human impact