Designs chosen for mini nuclear reactors - Feddit UK
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/5912949 [https://lemmy.ml/post/5912949] > EDF, GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy International LLC, Holtec Britain Limited, NuScale Power, Rolls Royce and Westinghouse Electric Company UK Limited have been chosen for the next stage of the process. > > The Small Modular Reactor (SMR) competition is part of the government’s plan for up to a quarter of all UK electricity to come from nuclear power by 2050.

Xpost from UK Energy.

Are we never going to stop this madness?

Nuclear will not help us with immediate energy needs, it will not help with climate change and it is worse for the environment, and it costs more than renewables.

The only people who benefit are the shareholders of nuclear companies and the government shit stains who pocket their brown envelopes and take the “consulting” jobs offered by the industry for services rendered.

And all this time, effort and money, OUR MONEY, is not being spent on renewables that can do what we need NOW.

We cannot continue to accept this or any other option that is not renewable.

Any and all opposition against renewable energy is generated and spread by the nuclear and fossil fuel industries.

Nothing I’ve said here is even controversial, there isn’t any hiding from it.

We have to fight this and we have to win.

  • ianovic69@feddit.ukOPEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Thanks for the thoughtful reply.

    I’ve been looking at that same position for a while now; do everything we can and use all the tools.

    Nuclear is proposed as part of that blanket but the reality is that we have run out of time for it to be viable. Maybe if the programme was initiated in the 70s/80s and we had lots of nuclear now, but we don’t. Maybe if we survive long enough to limit climate change effects, but right now we need all the funding for our energy needs to be directed into renewables. It’s not even debatable and the only reason anyone thinks it is, is because of lobbying, fearmongering and the deliberate spreading of misinform by the nuclear and oil industries.