Strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

"Ralph Sims says in future, small-scale nuclear power may prove more economic, and may be more palatable to the public if mass scale wind and solar farms are the alternative."

#GeorgeDriver, 2023

https://northandsouth.co.nz/2023/07/24/renewable-energy-by-2050/

Just no. Not now, not ever. I would happily risk prison time for nonviolent direct action to prevent construction even starting on a nuclear power plant in Aotearoa, and I doubt I'm alone in that.

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Flipboard Science Desk
@ScienceDesk@flipboard.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

Four reactors at France's Gravelines nuclear plant have been forced to shut down because of a surge of jellyfish that clogged the cooling system. The plant uses water from a canal connected to the North Sea, which has a growing jellyfish population due to warming seas. Gravelines is one of France's largest nuclear facilities. EDF, the plant operator, says that the facility is undamaged but will need to be cleaned.

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Flipboard Science Desk
@ScienceDesk@flipboard.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

Four reactors at France's Gravelines nuclear plant have been forced to shut down because of a surge of jellyfish that clogged the cooling system. The plant uses water from a canal connected to the North Sea, which has a growing jellyfish population due to warming seas. Gravelines is one of France's largest nuclear facilities. EDF, the plant operator, says that the facility is undamaged but will need to be cleaned.

https://flip.it/..zW.R

#France#NuclearPower#Jellyfish#MarineLife#Environment#ClimateChange#ClimateCrisis
Strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

Don't believe the hype. Thorium MSRs (Molten Salt Reactors) are less dangerous than standard uranium reactors, because they can't melt down, and they can't produce weapons grade nuclear materials. But still dangerous, producing radioactive wastes with half-lives in the hundreds of thousands of years;

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2011/jun/23/thorium-nuclear-uranium

We can scale up proven renewable tech, and probably develop new ones, far faster for the same investment, without the waste issues.

#nuclear#NuclearPower#Thorium#MSR