• Starya67@lemmy.world
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    22 days ago

    The fossil fuel industry wants more nuclear because it takes a lot of money and a lot of time to build. It gives them more time to make more money. Renewables are too fast and too cheap.

    • Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de
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      21 days ago

      Possible. Though I’d wager there’s also a lot of culture war and actual war involved (Russia sells both Oil and Uranium, Iran also sells Oil).

      • sparkyshocks@lemmy.zip
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        21 days ago

        The costs associated with nuclear are so overwhelmingly everything other than fuel that selling fuel isn’t going to be a big business, nowhere near the global markets for fossil fuels in actual dollars, even if the market one day approaches the same amount of useful energy in joules or kWh.

        • redjard@reddthat.com
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          21 days ago

          Russia has a lot of control over all layers of nuclear power, so this gives them political leverage.