BRING IT ON NITPICKY NUKE NERDS

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    19 days ago

    BRING IT ON NITPICKY NUKE NERDS

    Well acthtually we prefer to be called fission/fusion nerds

    “greenwashing is cheaper than action” indeed. (edit2) On that note, storytime about the clownshow that is Dutch politics. So our radical right wing government is pro nuclear power, of course, and they want to build more powerplants. So what are they planning on doing? They are going to start a study on which locations are best. Which is maddening, as these studies have already been done before (so it prob is just an attempt to hopefully have the study finish when it isn’t them in power anymore so they are not at risk of starting an too expensive megaproject). But it gets worse, the absolute clowns of our farmers party just went ‘fuck the studies’ and they just pointed at a province where there are a lot of farmers and went ‘we will put a powerplant there’. And this is how they discovered nuclear powerplants need running water and they picked one of the areas without a major river. ('im ignoring the clownshow re ‘the immigration crisis’ (not a crisis) as this post is already too long, and there is a big risk of honk overdose if I go into that).

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      Our local Swedish right-wingers in gov have a chubby for nukes too[1], because their main motivation besides hating on brown people is pissing off Greens. But in the Swedish way they handed this off to a researcher (“utredning”) who found out that to get the industry on board you need a) rock-solid political promises (so need to get the Social Democrats at least on board) and b) have a price guarantee for power for at least a decade, along with massive government loan guarantees.

      It’s gonna be hard to get voters interested in 10 new reactor sites (NIMBY gets supercharged when it comes to nukes) if it slightly pushes up lending rates and power bills.


      [1] the right-wing part of the opposition social democrats like them too to be fair

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        Iirc at the sea in friesland was one of the options yes. But the farmer option was also landlocked, de achterhoek if you want to look it up.