| ▲ | starbix 3 hours ago |
| This is going to be a huge waste of time and money until we realize that building new nuclear power plants will be too expensive and too late, since we'll have figured out a renewable energy concept that'll handle the load by then. Instead we could also just join a French project, who have way more experience. We should focus on extending our hydro power storage capacity instead. There will be a referendum anyways, so I think it's unlikely the ban will actually be lifted. |
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| ▲ | abecedarius 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| "I expect they're too expensive" is a terrible reason to ban them, though. |
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| ▲ | gpm 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | It is when it's tied to "and I expect they're going to ask for giant subsidies from taxpayers". Which nuclear inevitably does, both in the form of direct requests for money and by refusing to pay for adequate insurance to compensate everyone who will be damaged in the event of a meltdown externalizing the risks. | | |
| ▲ | abecedarius an hour ago | parent [-] | | If you're in "everything not banned is subsidized"-land where absolutely everything is political, you need to work on getting out of that hole, not digging it deeper. (I wouldn't assume the Swiss are there yet, but I've only visited a couple times for a few weeks. Their politics seemed healthier than I've seen elsewhere, fwiw.) |
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| ▲ | SiempreViernes 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | That's not why they were banned, and in any case lifting a ban on building something that nobody will build doesn't seem like good use of legislators time. | | |
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| ▲ | IAmBroom 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| > building new nuclear power plants will be too expensive and too late, since we'll have figured out a renewable energy concept that'll handle the load by then. That's a helluva prediction. Thorium reactors would be practically limitless in fuel supply, but we aren't getting them without seriously funded nuclear research. That is far less likely during a band on commercial stations. |
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| ▲ | Arodex 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | >Thorium reactors The same reactors nuclear powers with decades of experience haven't deployed? We will get two or three revolutions in solar power and battery technology before a single thorium reactor is viable. You could invest all the R&D budget of thorium reactors in perovskite panels and it would generate more MW per CHF invested. |
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