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From: Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>
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Subject: Re: power shortages
Date: Sat, 09 Mar 2024 05:54:39 GMT
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On a sunny day (Fri, 8 Mar 2024 19:56:48 +0100) it happened "Carlos E.R."
<robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote in <gk3sbkx527.ln2@Telcontar.valinor>:

>On 2024-03-08 16:01, John Larkin wrote:
>> On Fri, 08 Mar 2024 10:40:26 +0000, Cursitor Doom <cd@notformail.com>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Fri, 8 Mar 2024 10:22:29 +0100, Jeroen Belleman
>>> <jeroen@nospam.please> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 3/8/24 07:40, Jan Panteltje wrote:
>>>>> On a sunny day (Thu, 07 Mar 2024 07:13:56 -0800) it happened John Larkin
>>>>> <jl@997PotHill.com> wrote in <h8mjui5kf50de3tkplpf1e12k12r8dgl58@4ax.com>:
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/amid-explosive-demand-america-is-running-out-of-power/ar-BB1jtM69
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Increasing demand and declining reliable supply could put people in
>>>>>> the dark.
>>>>>
>>>>> Yesterday I was reading Netherlands gov has decided to build 4 new nuclear power plants.
>>>>> They still have to find locations for 3, what if next doors?? ??
>>>>
>>>> These are planned to be the --now old-fashioned-- Westinghouse
>>>> design? Big installations that need ten years to build?
>>>>
>>>> I wonder if it wouldn't be better to start an industry of
>>>> small modular reactors. Tens of megawatts rather than hundreds,
>>>> Something that could fit on a barge, or a train, transported
>>>> where it's needed, and up and running in months rather than
>>>> years.
>>>
>>> Already in development!
>>>
>>> https://www.rolls-royce.com/innovation/small-modular-reactors.aspx#/
>> 
>> It's really not a technical problem. The public has an irrational fear
>> of radiation.
>
>Gosh, it is a very rational fear.

Yes and no, wildlife around Chernobyl is flourishing
mainly because there are no people there to kill it, all evacuated.
The body has a DNA correction mechanism.
If you look at he amount of people killed by nuclear accidents (bombs apart)
maybe a few hundred, to the thousands killed each year in coal mining,
by air pollution, etc, nuclear is very safe.
A nuclear power plant accident may cause some areas to be evacuated for while.
But earth is big, times moves, radioactive elements decay.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki: people are living there again these days after it got nuked:
 japantimes.co.jp/2023/01/14/special-supplements/hiroshimas-rebound-atomic-bomb-prosperous-regional-hub/