Public ownership would be a great idea, but it would still incur costs in the immediate sense. Things have to be updated and maintained.
“The blasting had been planned for 5.30pm but was delayed after a 36-year-old pro-nuclear protester scaled an electricity pylon near the towers in protest at their demolition.”
Andreas Fichtner is now facing a legal battle for this protest. If you want to help out, please consider a donation.
Forbidden licorice.
Great overview, but I have two notes:
Several countries, and I guess Italy is among them, have decommissioning regulation where the old unit first has to ‘cool off’ for a few decades before the building can be torn down.
So, to answer of whether it is this or that, I answer: yes.
Did not expect this to go to any other company but a Russian one tbh.
Really impressive that their design can be transported as a 200 MWe module. That truly brings the SMR promise closer!
Well, he knows about this community now! 🙂
So, you’re then saying that nuclear is somehow more threatening to our future than fossil energy is? Wow. Thanks for being clear where you stand I guess.
Just for the record: fossil fuels not only change our planet’s climate, it also kills millions of people each year due to air pollution.
Yes, vastly better. You just learned about SL-1 or something?