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https://eu.boell.org/en/2021/04/26/7-reasons-why-nuclear-energy-not-answer-solve-climate-change
On top there isn't enough Uranium on this planet. Smaler power plants will use even more of that. One power plant is currently under a war threat.
There is the idea of nuclear power to be the best in our minds, because the nuclear power industry is one of the biggest lobbyists world wide and shapes that picture for us (with smiling people and green trees), but it is just a dream that does not hold up when thoroughly looked at.
Germany does just fine without. Yes we did prolong some of the power plants for security reasons when Russia started a war and we needed to become independend from them. But we would have done just fine without. The owners of the power plants were very reluctant to keep them running because it is expensive.
They are not sustainable without subsidies, because of the fast raising costs the older they get. For the same money New York could have built renewable energy sources in a short time frame.
In France most of the power plants are either closed for repairs, only on a fracture of their estimated output because of drought or damage and France went from exporting power to buying it while Germany is selling more energy than buying.
I know the dream is so beautiful and nice and the reality of nuclear power is all numbers and not at all easy to understand. Still, everyone needs to wake up from their dream.
Nuclear power can do things solar, wind and other renewables cannot.
Not being fully sustainable from a capitalist perspective is not the only variable that matters. France and Germany have in some cases replaced old nuclear reactors with fossil fuels, which themselves have received massive subsidies by the entire planet. How is that helping?