Young climate activist tells Greenpeace to drop ‘old-fashioned’ anti-nuclear stance

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Young climate activist tells Greenpeace to drop ‘old-fashioned’ anti-nuclear stance
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Since I don't see it mentioned anywhere: Ignoring the economical and environmental issues that nuclear power still has compared to actual renewables, it has a geostrategic problem: Uranium is a geologically limited resources, which just creates political and economical dependencies. And since Russia has a lot of it, keeping working sanctions against them alive is pretty problematic, if you need to buy your energy resources from them. See gas supply.

It's not like Russia has all of it, there are more uranium in the rest of the world, but it has full supply chain.

New archetypes of NP can run on depleted fuel. There's enough of that around for more than 50yrs of power.