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Originally Posted by para transit fellow
For tears I have heard the folks here on Calgarypuck suggest Nuclear fission is a viable solution to Alberta's energy challenges. SIMILARLY, I HEARD INTEREST FROM THE Alberta Government about nuclear energy.
After all these years.... what keeps Alberta from making Nuclear happen?
Capital investment?
Nuclear waste issues?
Financing?
Geotechnical concerns?
Seems like it is time to poop or get off the throne....
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Partly that Alberta was too small of a backwater in the era when we could build Nuclear, and partly nimbyism. Basically even though statistically safer than living near a coal or gas plant, or near a mine, compared to any any of those we have a visceral fear of nuclear. So because of the natural opposition that exists, new developments have a lot more costs and longer timelines, than just the cost and time of building itself. Canada hasn't broken ground on a Nuclear installation since Chernobyl.
The real question is how do you position nuclear to limit public opposition. How to you communicate the risks and risk radius effectively. That's one of the reasons people put a lot of hope in SMRs. It might be a frame shift where you tell people the lot that the installation is on has "nuclear risk" but an entire large town doesn't have to live in the shadow of the installation.