bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦Getting lots of messages from fans of nuclear power. Their thinking appears to go like this. "The idea of nuclear power is great, low carbon, safe, reliable. The idea is so good we must disregard the practical problems people have actually building reactors. We should just order these great nuclear power plants!". But we can't power our world with ideas. We need actual hardware & you can't ignore the dire state of the industry and just wish for perfect reactors to appear. https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/nuclear-no-yes-maybe-but-not-like-this/
Nuclear power: no, yes, maybe, but not like this - Bert Hubert's writings
This is a story in three acts, where we go from “trying to procure more nuclear power plants in 2024 is nuts”, to “I could see why you’d want some nuclear”, to “but if so, not like this”. This post has been quite a trip to write, where I rediscovered that writing something down is an ACE way to find out you didn’t know what you were talking about. It was also a good exercise in changing my mind a few times.
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