Posted on 10/04/2022 7:24:36 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Pressure is rising to find alternative energy sources before a looming electricity crunch hurts both consumers and manufacturers. South Korea may have the answer, says Bloomberg Opinion's Anjani Trivedi.
It’s time to get realistic about the worsening energy situation. A power shortage is approaching and few alternatives to bridge the green transition exist right now.
Nuclear is re-emerging as a front-runner, as are doubts and scepticism around its safety as memories of past accidents loom large along with haunting images of mushroom clouds. South Korea, though, shows why nuclear isn’t just a pipe dream - or a fuel to fear.
The country’s worries - like those of many others - aren’t just people feeling cold this winter, or rising prices. It’s the lack of electricity that will ultimately hamper everything from industrial production of goods and food to electric vehicles and the infrastructure to charge them - industries account for over half of the nation’s consumption.
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It’s great in fiction, but how do we get it to work in real life without a disaster occurring like at Chernobyl, that’s what I’d love to know.
Don’t build 1st generation plants and run them like communists.
Both of those conditions are very unlikely for future nuclear power, unless we’re talking about becoming communists in reality.
Only the Soviets could **** it up at Chernobyl. After that accident, apparently they have fixed the fatal flaw in design. But do we trust the Russians?
I find it interesting that South Korea is being depicted as
the nation that is revealing this to the world, when folks
in the United States have been saying this for decades, and
way before newer more safe methods had been invented.
It was safe back then also. Our media is so lame.
Accidents are extremely rare. We have been using nuclear power in our naval vessels since 1955 and commercially since 1958. Today’s reactors are more reliable and efficient.
Chernobyl was a badly designed reactor that had a positive feedback effect if it started going out of control. In other words the nuclear reactions would just keep accelerating so much that it would cause an actual explosion, which it did.
Western designed reactors have a negative feedback effect. If the core starts getting too hot the nuclear reactions will decrease eventually shutting it down.
It’s why Three Mile Island was a nothing burger compared to Chernobyl. No one died and there was very little radiation released.
It was 'our media' back then. Things have changed. So has the science.
What source of power do you support for a modern, industrialized country?
I agree.
Our media has been demonizing nuclear energy for a long long
long time though.
Clear back in the 70s they were.
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