Nuclear power is too slow and too expensive, says energy expert

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Thirteen countries produced at least one-quarter of their electricity from nuclear energy in 2022, with France getting up to around 70 percent of its electricity from it.   But energy consultant Mycle Schnieder told ‘The Agenda’ its not helping reduce carbon emissions fast enough because of the prohibitive costs.  #nuclear #greenenergy #climate change

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00:00 If you look at the record of the nuclear industry in building nuclear power plants,

00:07 then it takes a long time, much longer. The lead times are much longer than for any other competing

00:16 industry. And by the way, the competing industries is not only the production of electricity, but

00:23 energy efficiency is also a competitor, sufficiency, demand response, so there are all kinds of options.

00:32 And nuclear has turned out to be the option that is the slowest and the most expensive.

00:39 But if we're talking about the climate emergency, the notion of emergency means that it's urgent,

00:48 right? So there is a time factor. So we need to spend the money we have to spend,

00:53 because we can't spend it twice. We have to spend it in a way to reduce carbon emissions most,

01:01 the fastest. And it turns out that nuclear power, especially new nuclear power, is the slowest

01:09 and is the most expensive.

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