• Claidheamh@slrpnk.net
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    1 year ago

    I’m challenging the claim about energy use, not cost. Uranium mining is a rounding error in this regard.

    What you’re missing from seeing a power station being built is how much energy it produces. Being conservative, a single reactor generates as much energy as around 1000 wind turbines. And that’s without taking into account the full life cycle, which can probably 3-4x that number.

    The energy density numbers of nuclear power are such completely different orders of magnitude to other energy sources that people usually have trouble understanding them in real world terms.