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		derduff on March 3, 2025 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Solarpunk Nuclear is neither more cost efficient, nor environmentally better than renewable energy resources.

grumpy-de-sre on March 3, 2025 [–]

Yeh let's completely ignore the impact of yellowcake mining, enrichment, reprocessing, long term storage, and limited deposits.

Nuclear is low carbon, but it's far from an environmental panacea and it's about as far from decentralized production (punk) as you can get.

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