Nuclear power now makes up about 25% of the generation of Georgia Power, the largest unit of Atlanta-based Southern Co.

First U.S. nuclear reactor built from scratch in decades enters commercial operation in Georgia::ATLANTA — A new reactor at a nuclear power plant in Georgia has entered commercial operation, becoming the first new American reactor built from scratch in decades.

  • nottheengineer@feddit.deEnglish
    13·
    1 year ago

    Nuclear is still fossil fuel, just not combustion. But I agree, this is good news because it helps reduce coal and gas usage.

    Edit: I get it, I’m wrong. No need to repeat the same comments over and over.

    • majestictechie@lemmy.fosshost.comEnglish
      54·
      1 year ago

      Nuclear is Non-renewable, but it’s not a Fossil fuel:

      A hydrocarbon-based fuel, such as petroleum, coal, or natural gas, derived from living matter of a previous geologic time.

      • porkins@lemmy.worldEnglish
        25·
        1 year ago

        We have plenty of nuclear fuel and waste is a drop in an ocean compared to that of fossil fuels.

        • majestictechie@lemmy.fosshost.comEnglish
          13·
          1 year ago

          Yep. This is why I’m annoyed the UK is dumping its money into oil and coal fuel sources. We need more Nuclear plants and we should have started building these yesterday.

          • kill_dash_nine@lemm.eeEnglish
            6·
            1 year ago

            The best time to plant a tree build a nuclear power plant was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.

          • Acid@startrek.websiteEnglish
            5·
            1 year ago

            Tory government investing in nuclear energy?

            Nah boris and his lot would rather get bungs from the local lads and keep us in the dark ages.

            Labour aren’t exactly gonna do it either with Tory lite candidates atm. We are well and truly proper fucked.

          • porkins@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            I asked for that. In a manner-of-speaking, if you compared by the football field filled in area with barrels of waste. It would be about one for all the annual nuclear waste where turning the byproduct of combustible fossil fuels into just the vapor and ash equivalent would fill thousands. It arguably wouldn’t win from a toxicity perspective. For all the waste in the ocean from Fukushima, the only outcome were that the marine life seemed to have thrived off the low-level radiation.