"President Joe Biden’s administration on Wednesday finalized approval of $1.1 billion to help keep California’s last operating nuclear power plant running. "

Because renewable energy sources are too expensive?

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    10 months ago

    The grid really needs to be decentralized. Neighborhood backup batteries and solar panels would go a long way towards this.

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      10 months ago

      I feel like I watched a YouTube video about some guy who was working on commercializing personal home thorium power plants because they were totally safe but produced more power than you would ever need?

      We should be moving in that direction, just security wise.