And this is just assuming old fashioned LWR reactors we have today. If we assume fast breeders, the volume goes down spectacularly: a whole life would fill only 6% of this can.
For the new kids joining Mastodon, let me share a common mistake I see with new users:
"Mastodon sucks. There is no timeline. It's like a tiny echo chamber here"
What's the mistake you ask? They invariably only follow a few dozen people.
This is what you need to understand about federated platforms like Mastodon: the server only pulls in data from people you follow! So, go out and follow some more people already.
You can also follow hashtags btw. This is great for getting more posts in your feed on subjects that interest you. Go and use hashtags in your own posts too of course.
So, I was looking into using wasabi for object storage of my instance, as my local storage is filling up ever faster. But their buckets are no longer publically accessible and to be considered an exception by their support I'd have to use at least 25 TB.
So, that's not worth it... What do other admins use for block storage and what are the costs?
PWRs, BWRs and CANDUs are the most commonly found nuclear reactors in the world, in that order. They're also amazingly longlasting. Units built in the 1970s are rated to run for at least 80 years today.
Get this: the reactor vessel of a PWR has no known upper age limit. We simply don't know. Is it a century? 150 years? Longer? We can keep replacing all the other parts, as long as the RPV is sound, it simply doesn't matter how long a reactor operates.
And a CANDU? You refurbish those every 30 years or so. Forever.
Here's a rule of thumb: if anyone tells you that a 40 year old plant is 'old', they have an agenda.
I'm not an artist, but it would be funny to make this script into a comic:
- Pane 1: "Hi there, I'm a fuel rod" "Hi there! I'm a PWR and I'm going to house you for the next five years" - Pane 2: [after five years, a sad departure] "I'm going into storage for 300 years now, it was good knowing you 😭" - Pane 3: the PWR just keep humming and humming and humming - Pane 4: [300 years later] "Hi there, I'm a recycled piece of fuel and I'll be with you for five... wait, are you still around??" "Welcome home"
(Oh right, nuclear waste is not an actually existing problem)
"Spain has been using nuclear energy for forty years. Despite reaping the rewards of clean, abundant and affordable energy, they have mistakenly decided to phase-out nuclear. In this video we examine why this is not a smart course of action, and that Spain must re-examine this decision."
I'm reminded of a discussion I had like 20 years ago along very similar lines with a leftist:
Me: I think we should help people switch to Linux, starting with ourselves and our org." Them: "Oh, nonsense, after the revolution we'll just open source Windows".
This mentality between doing something *now* versus preparing for a *future* revolution, as a sort of atheist rapture moment that fixes everything, is something I've always found particularly unhelpful within leftwing circles. It leads to too much inaction and debate on the 'correct' course, while in my view anyway, it is mostly the people not wanting to invest in doing something *now* that are the real obstacles to helping any movement at all.
@sbi 28 TWh is a huge amount of electricity. The biggest Germany imported since ... ever? There's a serious shift going on since 2023. There's no need to belittle that point.
As for the 'cheaper' argument: I find that one truly interesting, because I see there an admittance that, apparently, energy production became uncompetitive in Germany. We were promised "too cheap to meter" renewable energy, but Germany finds itself importing, partly from France, because it's cheaper.
All about energy and what that means for people, in relation with the rest of the world. With technology we can all live well, with room for nature to flourish.I'm also a commie. If you press me, I'll say 'orthodox' marxist and 'cybernetic communist'. Ask me for more.#fedi22 #nuclear