A majority of Americans (57%) say they favor more nuclear power plants to generate electricity in the country, up from 43% who said this in 2020.

When asked about the federal government’s role, 41% of Americans say it should encourage the production of nuclear power.

Let’s get those new construction contracts signed!

  • lntl@lemmy.mlOP
    95·
    1 year ago

    Nuclear is great and the best path forward at this time is a mix of both nuclear and renewables. We don’t have to choose one over the other, both have advantages.

    • aard@kyu.de
      3·
      1 year ago

      I have no idea about the US power grid, so your comment may still apply there - though I guess also not for much longer.

      The new problem is that in Europe we now occasionally get more than 100% of power needed generated by renewables, so we’d either need storage or fast reacting power plants to compensate for spikes and drops in the renewable supply. We’re at a point where we no longer really need new nuclear plants for some ‘base load’ - which is something they’d be good for. But as cost for operating a nuclear plant is pretty much fixed independent of power output they’re very expensive when used for compensating spikes, something Finland just learned the hard way this year.

      • AA5B@lemmy.world
        41·
        1 year ago

        Nope, almost nowhere in US has anywhere near that high a portion of renewable energy. Storage is just so people use as an excuse to stop building out renewables. “It’s impossible to have more than 10% renewables”. “The grid will collapse if we have 20% renewables”. Etc

      • lntl@lemmy.mlOP
        1·
        1 year ago

        “Fast reacting plants” means natural gas to those in the business ;)