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What are the financial costs and benefits to using nuclear energy?
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∙ 11y ago
One of the benefits is that the plants almost never experience problems and it only takes a few people to run the plants.
There are several inherent design problems:
- the plants are designed to produce plutonium for nuclear weapons as a side product
- the plants are fuelled by relatively rare uranium rather than the more abundant thorium leading to an eventual fuel shortage due to problem above
- due to the use of uranium as the fuel the plants can meltdown unlike thorium reactors which just "die" when problems are encountered
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