Moldoteck

For the storage, check Onkalo for example

Enriched fuel can be gotten from Urenco/Orano or you can build Candu units otherwise. Over half of global uranium mining is already in situ (with several exceptions, Canada among them for good reasons) which is more or less ok enviromentally. Especially considering nuclear requires least amount of mining vs alternatives per kwh. "Nuclear being a clean energy is a myth as far as I know" - then you should inform yourself better. You can start for example with UNECE report https://unece.org/sites/default/files/2022-04/LCA_3_FINAL%20...

Trying to say nuclear mining is as bad as coal without even trying to inform yourself about the topic is fascinating

France is largest net exporter in EU and made about 5.4bn revenue last year from this export. It plans to build datacenters to increase profits further

Imo Norway will have it https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/assessment-of-pr...

lol you think power from Africa is strategically safer dependency? And no, nuclear will be miles cheaper considering infra cost of sending power from Africa

Nuclear requires least amount of materials so you can stockpile uranium for a decade and be fine

you subcontractit instead of building yourself. It's not like Switzerland is building all it's trains

nimby to have solar/wind in alps is even higher vs nimby against nuclear. With nuclear you can at least throw another unit in Aarau

Norway already wants to build nuclear. Austria still has worse emissions vs France/Sweden despite much more hydro...

Fascinating how ppl mention pro nuclear propaganda when we already know the facts. France and Sweden have among the lowest emissions in EU and got them in 90's by building both ren and nuclear. Germany built only ren, DK built only ren and both have far worse emissions.

The antinuclear lobby in Germany achieved a wonderful feat https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10640-025-01002-z

Ironically, France and Sweden got some of the fastest decarbonizations on the planet when nuclear plans got decided.

water to steam is a wonderful invention

SMR's are just a hype machine - economics are worse than LMR's. Look at Canadian BWRX for example...

It was mostly for units without cooling towers. Nowadays inland units have them included

Italy has much less hydro vs Spain, no access to cheap gas and no cheap nuclear. Building nuclear in parallel with ren is a must.

Cooling is never a problem. You design the plants properly, see Palo Verde. But for Italy cooling towers are enough

Most of UK's bills are up due to gas. Nuclear is a drop in a pond there

not regulations - supply chain. Many french reactors are modernized even with core catchers. Power is still cheap. Repository isn't a problem either. Switzerland needs one anyway and Terradura will slowly advance just like Onkalo

The cost is included why ppl keep repeating this nonsense https://www.kkg.ch/de/uns/geschaefts-nachhaltigkeitsberichte...

it was mostly because PWR's are cheaper. But Thorium is advancing https://world-nuclear-news.org/articles/first-criticality-fo...

You don't need only MW but MW at requested time

Didn't know Germany is a developing country https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10640-025-01002-z

5) gas dependency for firming

still no. Highest is from coal. Entire chernobyl deaths are expected to be about 4k per old UN estimations or much less per recent UNSCEAR reports. That's for decades span. And Chernobyl was a design that the west wouldn't even allow back then... Now check coal...

you can get weapons for much cheaper without power plants

risks are concentrated with ren too. Where do you think most EU offshore is built? Where are most productive solar units? What you do with gas firming plants. You always have centralization problem at different levels. Prime example - most of Ukraine's ren capacity is either destroyed or conquered because it was in south where weather is better

it's very hard to create plutonium for weapons this way due to parasitic isotopes. Much easier to have distributed enrichment or uranium.

nuclear requires least amount of mining and materials per kwh. France already reoriented ore buying from other sources and the price is still dirt cheap. Canada has literally several stalled mines because market prices are too low

it'll be just perfect in that period considering you also need firm power on top of vre and hydro is tapped

the argument is always repeated and always false. Unless you like gas firming, nuclear must be expanded. Nuclear has lowest enviromental impact per UNECE

Ukraine still has power due to it's npp because most of ren infra got destroyed or captured because it was in the south. The plan for managing waste in Switzerland is terradura, similar to Onkalo in Finland, similar to what Germany does with toxic waste in herfa neurode

decomission cost and waste management costs are included and cheap. You should avoid informing yourself from some politically motivated websites and rely on real financial data like https://www.kkg.ch/de/uns/geschaefts-nachhaltigkeitsberichte... or check the Onkalo project

it'll be built by others anyway