Seeing that they need quite a lot of clean water, which is not widely available everywhere during the entire year in big amounts, especially with these droughts due to climate change.

  • @Ziggurat@sh.itjust.works
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    62 years ago

    I wouldn’t worry too much about water availability for cooling (even though it’s an issue). I see a bigger “political” issue

    A safe nuclear industry requires at laest the two following stuff

    • A solid academic and industrial tradition, able to train skilled engineer and technician, but also researcher to prepare the future.

    • A government strong enough to deal with the NIMBY, but weak enough to have an independent nuclear safety agency able to perform audits without caring about political pressure.

    This works in a country like France, may still work in a country like Germany or US (even though NIMBY have more power there) but many country especially in the * third world* don’t have either trained “nuclear scientists” or a government able to guarantee nuclear safety