okay but also, those are nuclear cooling towers in the foreground, right? that’s another renewable energy source. like, id be fine with the stuff coming out of the cooling towers bc it’s water. don’t care if it ruins the skyline.

Nuclear fission is not renewable. It relies on mined uranium, which is rather limited.

Also, cooling towers are not seen exclusively with nuclear power plants. Many chemical refineries need lots of process heat and need to get rid of that as well. Evaporating water to steam is a great way to disperse excess heat.

Any kind of heat power plant also needs some way to expel excess steam, so oil and gas plants have them as well, just usually different designs.

Nuclear fission is not renewable. It relies on mined uranium, which is rather limited.

The uranium is gonna continue to undergo fission, whether we mine it or not, whether we enrich/refine it or not. At that point it’s like collecting energy from our surroundings, really functionally no different than harvesting geothermal, wind, solar, hydro, etc.

Exactly, nuclear is no less renewable than solar. Where does everyone think solar energy comes from? Nuclear.

We might as well capture the uranium decay, as you said, it will release the energy whether we collect it or not.