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It's probably the only environmentally friendly base load option other than overbuilding renewables and building lots of battery storage.
Nuclear is probably cleaner than building that many batteries...
The micro reactors aim to (hopefully) reduce the main issues with traditional nuclear power.
I'm not convinced that we need much battery storage. If there's enough being generated, less storage is needed. It's another fossil fuel argument intended to sow doubt.
Even if it is cleaner, we need the funding directed at renewables. This isn't even debatable; renewables now, other stuff later once the emergency is under control.
Again, this doesn't help us now and actively hinders our ability to address global heating.
You either need batteries or a Europe wide energy grid. It's quite possible for it to be still (not windy) over the whole of the UK for example.
There can easily be enough renewable energy generated here for 100% of our needs 100% of the time. In fact much moreso.
Any suggestion otherwise comes from nuclear, oil and gas industry misinformation.
Batteries as they are now are not going to help. They are too costly, environmentally damaging, human exploiting, and only make Mr X even more wealthy.
We don't need them and we certainly don't want any of that or him. They are all lying so that we don't make renewables. Every time there is doubt, they are winning. Every time there is a debate, they are winning. When anything delays the move to renewables, they are winning.
I don't want them to win.
I want us to win.