Initially, the European Commission proposed two lists, one of which included so-called “strategic” technologies subject to a 40% domestic manufacturing target and fast-track permitting procedures.
However, this list did not feature nuclear power, a move that sparked outrage among its advocates on social media, particularly in France.
However, things took a new turn on Tuesday.
The compromise list now includes renewable energy technologies, nuclear fission and fusion technologies, energy storage, carbon capture and storage (CCS), hydrogen transport infrastructure, and electrolysers, among others.
Luckily nuclear reactors can be build and fueled with scraps everyone has in their backyard.
If we replace all fossil fuels with nuclear reactors we run out of uranium before we’d run out of oil and gas on our current consumption levels.
The Materials required to build reactors are cheap and abondant. The amount of Uranium required to supply a plant for 10 years is small enough that it can be stored on site. It would alse be possible to extract Uranium from seawater, a supply that would last until the sun expands and swalows the planet.
Extracting Uranium from seawater is a ridicilous idea. The hypothetical proposals for a single extractor require 100.000 Tonnes of absorbens on a surface of 1000 km² At concentrations around 3 ppb, you’d need to filter about 7,5 trillion m³ of water per year, to meet the current US electric demand.
That is an environmental catastrophy abomination of ressource extraction and it is most likely still energy negative, because of the insane amount of chemicals needed.