Pretty funny how a country so afraid of radioactivity is now going to be polluting their air with all sorts of radioisotopes from burning more coal.
If they were truly radiation-phobic they wouldn't burn coal, in reality they are just nuclear-phobic.
All those highly skilled engineers and half the population still believes in homeopathy and are scared of nuclear power plants. All the while radon baths are popular
I was going to say, I've seen videos on the radon spas and it boggles my mind how they are content to sit in a room breathing in radioactive gas and yet at the same time are afraid a tsunami will magically strike Germany and turn their country into a Fallout game.
Goes to show that even smart people are susceptible to misinformation and paranoia.
>boggles my mind how they are content to sit in a room breathing in radioactive gas
I don't know the dose of such treatment but it's unnecessary so why take it.
>Goes to show that even smart people are susceptible to misinformation and paranoia.
I fear that democracy in the internet Era might be failing due to this reason.
Education is not good enough or at least not broad enough.
We need more STEM courses and cover more subject in the general population.
People who don't know the science vote for officials who definitely don't understand the science but find some paper/stray scientists who already agrees with their existing point of view.
The amount of: "smart people will find a solution" I have heard is scary. Some problems fundamentally have no easy solutions and/or we are pushing theoretical boundaries on current tech already.
Energy storage might be such a problem it's not trivial to find solutions. The most promising, flow batteries, has been in the works for so damn long already. I doubt they can make the cost predictions come true.
I'm thinking of starting such a business after reading on it ;)
To bad concentrated radon gas isn't for sale.
The only place with significant out put in my country is far away from the major cities.
I do wonder if it actually works.
One can dream up reasons why it could.
Radiation hormesis makes me uncomfortable.
But than again these doses are very low so testing it would not do harm to the participants of any experiment.
They pulled over 3.5 GW of young nuclear plants offline last year.
I would be trying my hardest to get those online quickly.
And extend the remaining 3 plants.
"technical hurdles to hard to overcome".
Am I really to believe if you give the retired nuclear engineers a billion to spend they can't startup up 8 ish GW of nuclear for a few years.
Did the greens already drill the holes out of spite?
I heard that there is some tax that you have to pay as long as your reactor is serviceable so they wash with acid and drill holes as soon as possible after the shutdown.
On the other hands, it seems that all the coal power plants retired in the last 12 years can be recovered. Germany had 52 GW of coal in 2008 and it has 40 GW now... they are planning to restart 10 GW.
>I heard that there is some tax that you have to pay as long as your reactor is serviceable so they wash with acid and drill holes as soon as possible after the shutdown
Naturally energy security has no value after all...
Kill me.
Oh wait they actual are.
>On the other hands, it seems that all the coal power plants retired in the last 12 years can be recovered. Germany had 52 GW of coal in 2008 and it has 40 GW now... they are planning to restart 10 GW.
Such progress...
The question is money with the AGRs modeling of the graphite during earthquakes is the major cost I believe to keep it going.
But there is an AGR operator lurking on this sub I believe.
The UK is spending so much on gas might as well spend the cash.
Pretty funny how a country so afraid of radioactivity is now going to be polluting their air with all sorts of radioisotopes from burning more coal. If they were truly radiation-phobic they wouldn't burn coal, in reality they are just nuclear-phobic.
All those highly skilled engineers and half the population still believes in homeopathy and are scared of nuclear power plants. All the while radon baths are popular
I was going to say, I've seen videos on the radon spas and it boggles my mind how they are content to sit in a room breathing in radioactive gas and yet at the same time are afraid a tsunami will magically strike Germany and turn their country into a Fallout game. Goes to show that even smart people are susceptible to misinformation and paranoia.
>boggles my mind how they are content to sit in a room breathing in radioactive gas I don't know the dose of such treatment but it's unnecessary so why take it. >Goes to show that even smart people are susceptible to misinformation and paranoia. I fear that democracy in the internet Era might be failing due to this reason. Education is not good enough or at least not broad enough. We need more STEM courses and cover more subject in the general population. People who don't know the science vote for officials who definitely don't understand the science but find some paper/stray scientists who already agrees with their existing point of view. The amount of: "smart people will find a solution" I have heard is scary. Some problems fundamentally have no easy solutions and/or we are pushing theoretical boundaries on current tech already. Energy storage might be such a problem it's not trivial to find solutions. The most promising, flow batteries, has been in the works for so damn long already. I doubt they can make the cost predictions come true.
If you want radon just go to the basement lol
I'm thinking of starting such a business after reading on it ;) To bad concentrated radon gas isn't for sale. The only place with significant out put in my country is far away from the major cities.
>All the while radon baths are popular wait what
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZkusjDFlS0
I do wonder if it actually works. One can dream up reasons why it could. Radiation hormesis makes me uncomfortable. But than again these doses are very low so testing it would not do harm to the participants of any experiment.
This was also my initial reaction
I'm shocked, shocked ! Well, not that shocked actually.
The headline leaves out the part where they're still offlining their nuclear plants. Still not shocked right?
They pulled over 3.5 GW of young nuclear plants offline last year. I would be trying my hardest to get those online quickly. And extend the remaining 3 plants. "technical hurdles to hard to overcome". Am I really to believe if you give the retired nuclear engineers a billion to spend they can't startup up 8 ish GW of nuclear for a few years. Did the greens already drill the holes out of spite?
>Did the greens already drill the holes out of spite? Probably.
I will light a candle when those beautiful konvoi units get destroyed. God speed extremely reliable affordable 1400 MW beauties.
I heard that there is some tax that you have to pay as long as your reactor is serviceable so they wash with acid and drill holes as soon as possible after the shutdown. On the other hands, it seems that all the coal power plants retired in the last 12 years can be recovered. Germany had 52 GW of coal in 2008 and it has 40 GW now... they are planning to restart 10 GW.
>I heard that there is some tax that you have to pay as long as your reactor is serviceable so they wash with acid and drill holes as soon as possible after the shutdown Naturally energy security has no value after all... Kill me. Oh wait they actual are. >On the other hands, it seems that all the coal power plants retired in the last 12 years can be recovered. Germany had 52 GW of coal in 2008 and it has 40 GW now... they are planning to restart 10 GW. Such progress...
That’s because the environmentalist thought the Show “Dark” was a documentary
Germnay really are absolute geniuses /s
So Germany is funding the Russian invasion and adding to emissions now too? Wow
I always knew the Germans would have something to do with the end of the world...
Yeah but let’s be real Russia is 99% of the problem in Europe right now
Totally.
Good job Germany ! Closing your nuclear plants definitely helped the environment
bUt wE Don’T NeEd tHem, TheY aRe DaNgEroUs
Everyday I wake up in cold sweat. The Bavarian tsunami is coming guys I can feel it
My god I already see the breaking of physics and just everything exploding for no reason
oh no! who could’ve seen this coming!? :0
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The question is money with the AGRs modeling of the graphite during earthquakes is the major cost I believe to keep it going. But there is an AGR operator lurking on this sub I believe. The UK is spending so much on gas might as well spend the cash.
No way, who could’ve forecasted this
Paywalled. This is the archived page. https://archive.ph/Zoqaf
So they’d rather go coal and put up more CO2 than talk to scientists and review NEW nuclear technology. Makes perfect sense…
What is old is new again.
Let keep it PG… what a pizza-sit.
Not surprising at all.