{"id":18692,"date":"2023-07-15T18:38:33","date_gmt":"2023-07-16T01:38:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=18692"},"modified":"2023-09-03T18:11:03","modified_gmt":"2023-09-04T01:11:03","slug":"2023-07-15-why-we-shouldnt-build-nuclear-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=18692","title":{"rendered":"2023-07-15 Why We Shouldn&#8217;t Build Nuclear Power"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Adam Dorr of RethinkX   16.5 min. YouTube video.  His book is Brighter<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Main reason:  &#8220;&#8221;Cost &#8211; Nuclear power makes no economic sense.  It really is that simple: it&#8217;s an open and shut case.&#8221;&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;&#8221;We don&#8217;t need nuclear, or coal power or any other conventional power for base load.  Research shows &#8230; Batteries make base load a non-issue.&#8221;&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He continues on with several more reasons why nuclear power is not feasible.  One that really annoys me is that in France, nuclear power uses *half* of all water.  And France is a country with ample water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Brighter | Episode 10 - Why we shouldn\u2019t build nuclear power\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/c0f1L0XUIQ8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adam Dorr of RethinkX 16.5 min. YouTube video. His book is Brighter Main reason: &#8220;&#8221;Cost &#8211; Nuclear power makes no economic sense. It really is that simple: it&#8217;s an open and shut case.&#8221;&#8221; &#8220;&#8221;We don&#8217;t need nuclear, or coal power or any other conventional power for base load. Research shows &#8230; Batteries make base load<a href=\"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=18692\"> <\/p>\n<p> (Read More&#8230;)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[545,1883,385,1858,1,1284],"tags":[2440,833,947],"class_list":["post-18692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance","category-new-reactor-design","category-nuclear-power","category-research","category-uncategorized","category-video-books-documents-literature","tag-cost","tag-nuclear-power","tag-rethinkx"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18692"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18864,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18692\/revisions\/18864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}