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Originally Posted by Pudfark
@nearmiss
What do you suggest for cheap energy in Japan?
What affordable alternative do they have?
Therein lies the problem....affordable?
"Clean/renewable" energy is so expensive....nobody can/will afford it.
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Well, the Japanese have an island right there and that offers plentiful opportunities for alternatives. The problem is, it will take quite a while to build that up.
I personally was indifferent towards the problem for a long time up until I got to know that at least in Germany, NPPs are insecureable (Means, if one blows up, the taxpayer has to take care of the damage. I am also worried about the implications, that securers obviously deem the prevailing risk as too high to take any chances. Would be interested to know how that situation is in the UK or the US, for example). Also, Europe is a densly populated place, if a plant goes up here it will potentially effect millions. Add that to the problem that to this day no definitive nuclear waste site has been found to store this stuff for the next million years and you have some problems you can't just ignore. Add to that the huge construction plans for nuclear sites all over the globe and you just create another dependent infrastructure that repeats the old oil cycle of having to secure ressources to make sure you do not run out of fuel (not to talk about the huge amounts of subsidies going into nuclear plants not only in Germany, but all over the place, that could be very much used for alternatives).
IMHO nuclear sounds good on paper but in practice simply makes too much trouble in the long run. "Affordable" in this regard is a very relative term.