2026-02-14 04:51 UTC
@kathhayhoe@fediscience.org
China is also adding nuclear energy at a fantastic rate. In addition to having the third-most operating power plants by country (59), they have about 30 additional plants in construction and should overtake France (in second place) this year.
Every watt of that is carbon-free.
Funny the folks concerned about climate action seem to always forget to mention nuclear energy.
#nuclear #NuclearEnergy #NuclearPower
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@lkanies@hachyderm.io 2026-02-14 12:57
@cazabon@mindly.social @kathhayhoe@fediscience.org mostly because you can get a gigawatt of solar+batteries online in a few years but it takes like 15-30 to get a nuclear plant online. It also happens to be a lot more expensive. We absolutely should not have killed nuclear power in favor of coal in the 70s. But we don’t have time now to focus on it as a solution.