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Old 02-17-2021, 08:33 AM
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waldo135
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Originally Posted by DeltaboundRedux View Post
Actually, there are about 50 nuclear reactors being constructed worldwide right now, with China and India by far building the most of them. About double that number are on order worldwide, along with proposals for up to 300 additional plants around the globe. (currently about 440 active plants worldwide)


2 being built in Georgia; the US tends to kick the can down the road ('Merica!) by getting extensions on their operating leases and uprating their power generating capacity. France does the same.

Pretty encouraging, really. There's no perfect source of power, but if carbon emission control is your primary goal, nuclear power plants are the only serious game in town.

https://www.world-nuclear.org/inform...worldwide.aspx
And Germany is abandoning nuclear all together.

https://www.wired.com/story/germany-...ssions-spiked/
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