{"id":10309,"date":"2022-09-17T19:53:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-18T00:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/?p=10309"},"modified":"2022-11-03T20:07:40","modified_gmt":"2022-11-04T01:07:40","slug":"the-moment-for-nuclear-power-to-save-us-was-twenty-years-ago-and-it-didnt-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/2022\/09\/the-moment-for-nuclear-power-to-save-us-was-twenty-years-ago-and-it-didnt-happen\/","title":{"rendered":"The moment for nuclear power to save us was twenty years ago – and it didn’t happen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Via Dr. Jonathan Foley on Twitter<\/a>, a recent opinion piece in the NYT argues that despite it remaining popular amongst some advocates, \u201cNuclear power still doesn\u2019t make much sense\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The problem with nuclear is that we\u2019ve been having the same conversation for 20 years or more. In the absence of heavy government subsidy, no one has built much. And we seem no closer to working out how to build nuclear plants more quickly and cheaply.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Is an alternative reality where massive oil & gas subsidies were shifted to nuclear in the 1990s and 2000s one where we\u2019d be in a better climate & emissions situation? Maybe. However, the need in that parallel universe to overcome strong environmental & petrobusiness headwinds seem to make it a rather unlikely counterfactual.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In our actual reality, as the NYT piece argues, other solutions have now emerged with compelling speed and cost advantages, and less environmental baggage – however unfair you think the latter is. And because we\u2019ve left our response so late, speed matters most of all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[collated from this Twitter thread<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Via Dr. Jonathan Foley on Twitter, a recent opinion piece in the NYT argues that despite it remaining popular amongst some advocates, \u201cNuclear power still doesn\u2019t make much sense\u201d. The problem with nuclear is that we\u2019ve been having the same conversation … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,364],"tags":[213,897,896],"class_list":["post-10309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-society","tag-climate-change","tag-energy-policy","tag-nuclear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10309"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10314,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10309\/revisions\/10314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}