{"id":351,"date":"2019-08-26T23:58:26","date_gmt":"2019-08-26T23:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.mine.nu\/blog\/index.php\/2019\/08\/26\/nuclear-power-not-the-answer-as-renewables\/"},"modified":"2019-08-26T23:58:26","modified_gmt":"2019-08-26T23:58:26","slug":"nuclear-power-not-the-answer-as-renewables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/2019\/08\/26\/nuclear-power-not-the-answer-as-renewables\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuclear power not the answer as renewables continue to boom, report finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2019-08-27\/energy-audit-finds-nuclear-power-is-not-the-answer-for-australia\/11450850'>Nuclear power not the answer as renewables continue to boom, report finds<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"link_description\">\n<p>Never really has been a good way of heating water.<\/p>\n<p>* nuclear fuel is not renewable.<br \/>* nuclear fuel is likely to become more scarce and expensive over the next few decades.<br \/>* the average grade of uranium has declined substantially in recent years as the best reserves have been depleted.<br \/>* nuclear power plants are so costly to build that unsubsidized nuclear plants are not economically competitive.<br \/>* nuclear fuel cycle entails substantial environmental impacts, which may be greater during the mining and processing stages than during plant operation, even when radiation-releasing accidents are taken into account.<br \/>* storage of radioactive waste is highly problematic.<br \/>* heat pollution from coolant water discharged into lakes, rivers, or oceans can disrupt aquatic habitats.<br \/>* reactors have had to be shut down due to water shortages, highlighting a future vulnerability of this technology in a world where droughts are becoming more common due to climate change. <br \/>* pebble-bed, modular reactors, fast reactors, thorium fuel: all of these new technologies is problematic for one reason or another.<br \/>* to meet existing\/growing needs, hundreds of new plants would be required very soon.<br \/>* if nuclear was used to cover base load, the number of required installations would drastically increase the already high demand on the limited fuel supplies, blowing the cost of generation out.<br \/>* numerous older plants require decommissioning and replacement, an extremely costly expense subject to major budgetary blowouts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nuclear power not the answer as renewables continue to boom, report finds Never really has been a good way [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[31,157],"class_list":["post-351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-business","tag-economics-and-finance","post_format-post-format-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}