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Comment Re:Apologise, greens (Score 1, Insightful) 71

Nuclear energy is often sold as reliable baseload power, but in reality, it’s increasingly vulnerable to the very climate chaos it's meant to fight. Heatwaves raise river temperatures, forcing plants to shut down because the water is too hot to cool reactors without exceeding safety limits. Droughts reduce water levels so much that there's simply not enough to run the cooling systems. Freezing conditions can block intakes entirely. These aren't rare events anymore.

Maintenance and refueling take reactors offline for months at a time, while solar panels and wind turbines can be swapped or fixed quickly and cheaply. And if a wind turbine fails, you get a dented field or a blown fuse. If a reactor fails, you get a contaminated exclusion zone and a decades-long disaster.

Then there's the cost. Sellafield alone is expected to cost UK taxpayers £243 billion to decommission, with work stretching out for the next 100 years. That doesn’t include the permanent storage needs for radioactive waste, which must be secured from leaks, theft, and terrorism for up to 184,000 years. No wind farm or solar array leaves a bill like that.

Comment The additional costs (Score 1) 56

Each time I ask ChatGPT a research question, it answers with the fucking oval button links that cannot be copy/pasted so I have again to tell it to lose those and replace them with raw html links.
Then I have to tell it what raw html links means and to drop the ChatGPT hints in the links.
Then I have to tell it to lose the fucking em-dashes that I absolutely hate.
And so on, it has my memory file stating all this, but it never checks it.
So usually the 5th time is the charm.
And ChatGPT complains that saying 'thank you' costs them millions?

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