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[–] Hugohase@startrek.website 10 points 5 days ago (93 children)

Slow, expensive, riddeled with corruption, long ago surpassed by renewables. Why should we use it?

[–] mEEGal@lemmy.world 48 points 5 days ago (33 children)

only antimatter could provide more energy density, it's insanely powerful.

produces amounts of waste orders of magnitude lower than any other means of energy production

reliable when done well

it shouldn't be replaced with renewables, but work with them

[–] Lemmchen 1 points 3 days ago

it shouldn't be replaced with renewables, but work with them

Nuclear energy as a bridge technology is incompatible with renewables.

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