Comments by "Lepi Doptera" (@lepidoptera9337) on "Is nuclear power really that slow and expensive as they say?" video.

  1. Great sarcasm. ;-)
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  2. It probably depends on how you count. If you take a tightly packed rooftop array that has no additional land requirements, then it does. If we compare a typical reactor site with a typical large scale solar farm, but without externalized cost for the reactor (like impact on cooling water resources etc.), then nuclear probably has a leg up. It doesn't matter, though, because solar electricity is cheaper by the kWh.
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  3. Yes. Rooftop solar requires approx. 50 feet of wiring from your roof to your electrical fuse box. :-)
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  4. Dude, nuclear power needs plenty of cooling water. :-)
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  5. Are you going to pay for it? Investors who have money for sure will not. They can get way higher returns on solar and wind at way lower risk.
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  6. You mean the government is doing its job to keep you safe? Yes, it is. ;-)
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  7. Are you getting help with that? ;-)
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  8. I am inviting you to one of my "gas of life" treatments. You will be given a CO2 breathing apparatus and asked to wear it for a full hour, which will greatly revitalize your body. Should you pass out during the cure, we will administer first aid in form of more life giving CO2. :-)
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  9. Empirically you will find that every plant on the planet has some design flaw like that, it just goes undiscovered until something happens. Safe by design doesn't exist for GW scale reactors. You can make 100kW and maybe even 10MW scale reactors safe against thermal meltdown, but beyond that convection cooling just won't save your butt. No matter the scale, you can never escape neutron activation and long lived spallation products, so the cost of "burial" never goes away.
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  10.  @Crispr_CAS9  High level waste is a serious concern that remains completely unsolved after 80 years. There. Fixed it for you. :-)
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  11.  @Crispr_CAS9  That is what every engineer says who didn't deliver a working solution. It's always the customer's fault. :-)
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  12. What stops you from investing all of your money into it? ;-)
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  13. Sounds cool, except for the fact that none of the serious problems with molten salt reactors have been solved, yet. It's the technology of tomorrow and always will be. ;-)
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