Nah, copilot wasn’t involved, but there was some talk about having two Outlook’s and neither working

Look, we are both trying to solve the waste issue, why are you treating me like an enemy?

Eh, the maths have shown that burying will work fine.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/experimental

Experimental - Noun “The subject of an experiment”

We have three active nuclear powerplants, Ringhals, Forsmark and Oskarshamn.

We are currently decomissioning the powerplant Barsebäck, the Danes were less than happy about having two reactors close to their coast.

Forsmark is the only powerplant that still runs all their reactors, Oskarshamn only has one of three reactors running, and Ringhals has two active reactors out of four.

Yes?

It is the only long term solution we have, it is elegant and simple.

It happens, it’s fine.

If you want to discuss my thoughts about nuclear power as a modern energy source, I am open to it, but perhaps in a more apropriate post.

Anyway, have a lovely day! :)

Notice how I never once mentioned building more nuclear power in my post, so I am not sure if you are replying to the right conversation.

Sigh, it is super easy to deal with nuclear waste, you find stable bedrock, drill a hole into it, put the wast into the hole, backfill with clay.

Done.

There is zero need to build momuments to warn future civilizations, as long as it is deep enough, we can expect their technical development level to be on our own level before they can dig it up.

I am a Swede, we have stable bedrock, a stable political system, we have the skills to build a facility like this, we have a shitload of space for it. We should invest in large storage facilities for nuclear waste, we can make enough to fill the global demand for nuclear waste storage, and we could make a plenty of money doing so.

Also, it can be quite cold in Sweden, we could build the sites with heat exchange pipes surrounding them giving us decades of boosted geothermal power.

If I were a billionaire, I would focus on building nuclear waste sites for the benefit of mankind.

I wish I could, but I alreafy have four 8TB drives in the server, I want two more to reach 32TB while running Zraid2 for excellent reliabillity.

I hope, really hope I can find a deal on two 8TB nas drives for my home server on black friday so I can finally bring it online after a yearof waiting for better perices…

I am very happy to have bought Affinity Photo before Serif sold out.

I have never understood why translation movies and tv shows would be so great, it works for kids shows, but adults can deal woth subtitles

Was it?

Hummmm…

Yeah, I guess it was cool for a few months, then it quickly stopped being cool…

I feel like we have strayed too far away from my main point, solar doesn’t work when it is dark outside.

It is dark for long streaches of time in the Nordics.

When it is dark, we use more energy to heat and light our homes.

Batteries can’t supply enough power during that time.

Importing power is expensive.

So domestic power generation it is, and since nuclear power is one of the most environmentally friendly power sources we have and will work in the dark, it makes sense to use it to complement renewables.

Cool, I didn’t know that.

I just mentioned that we have the fuel and the enrichment facilities in the EU…

Do you realize how heavily Europe still depends on fossil fuels today? And that some of its nuclear reactors still use fuel supplied by Russia?

Yes.

If your big argument is avoiding dependence on hostile suppliers, swapping Russian gas for Russian nuclear fuel is a pretty spectacular blind spot.

When did I mention using Russian nuclear fuel?

Sweden has actually a fair bit of uranium, we could mine it, have France process it and run our nuclear plants on our own fuel.

While very impressive, solar power is not the the ultimate power source.

For us in the nordic regions we don’t get enough sun during the winter just as we need it.

We still need nuclear power unless we make ourselves dependent on other nations for power generation and transfer.

Just look at how Russia tried to hold Europe’s supply of gas hostage after the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, I don’t want us to ever be so completely dependant on another nation/entity again.

“Oh, but we can use batteries!”

Sure, but batteries degrade over time, meaning we will need a continous way to replace them, and since most manufacturers of batteries are located in China (same goes for solar panels) we will just become dependent on China for our energy needs, so we have replaced Russia’s gas monopoly with China’s solar and battery monopoly.

Untill we have the ability to build and deploy solar panels and batteries at scale inside the EU we should be careful about giving up our current traditional powerplants.

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