The Climate, Environment and Energy Thread

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We keep kyboshing Nuclear, but you can get a lot of fuel out of a much smaller amount of it mined, with very small amount of waste, and if the same amount of energy went into funding research into better waste recycling, we might get a lot further.

Note France just announced a new generation of what they are describing as small nuclear. I suspect it will be based on pebble bed reactors that are just big enough to run a suburb, do not need cooling and are basically a disaster / attack hardened battery the size of a house that lasts for decades running a single suburb. As an aside I've seen plans for Japanese units the size of a large garden shed / shipping container that can be helicoptered into various disaster zones and supply power for months or years until the rebuild of services are complete.

I assert the timing of the French announcement, our purchasing nuclear subs and our outstanding / cancelled contract with France are not a coincidence! What is the chance that contract is replaced with a good faith commitment for $90B worth of small nuclear facilities?