this post was submitted on 01 Aug 2023
530 points (96.5% liked)

Technology

59107 readers
3183 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
530
First U.S. nuclear reactor built from scratch in decades enters commercial operation in Georgia (www.nbcnews.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
320 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

First U.S. nuclear reactor built from scratch in decades enters commercial operation in Georgia::ATLANTA — A new reactor at a nuclear power plant in Georgia has entered commercial operation, becoming the first new American reactor built from scratch in decades.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How is solar, wind, or hydro not "clean"? The generating of the power, not the building of the facilities, building anything is never clean.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

People count material, fuel and ecological with nuclear as well, so why not count it with hydro, wind and solar? Concrete is concrete.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Because all technology will require that. If we want energy, we have to build stuff. But there's no fuel to buy, generally much less ecological impact due to limited waste products since no fuel is being "burned". And the building cost is one time and generally subsidized, and maintenance is considerably lower, not to mention labor since you don't need nuclear specialists to run the day to day.