• @deegeese@sopuli.xyz
    9•1 year ago

    Those are not at all cheap and are subsidized by enrichment for weapons purposes.

    France is trying to extend their service lifetime beyond what they were designed for because they can’t face the bill to replace them with newer reactors.

    • @grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10•1 year ago

      and are subsidized by enrichment for weapons purposes in order to reprocess the waste into new fuel

      FTFY. That’s a good thing and we should be doing it here in the US, too.

    • Uranium3006
      1•1 year ago

      Those are not at all cheap and are subsidized by enrichment for weapons purposes.

      they aren’t, and the whole anti nuclear power movement is just people who don’t understand science not being able to tell the difference between a bomb and a power plant. I mean science education wasn’t that great in midcentury america but today we can easily know better