“10 years behind” for chipmaking is the opposite of “10 years behind” for, I dunno, psychiatry. It’s a very centralized and complex supply chain. The fact that one can say that China is “10 years behind” there and not “30 years behind” is kinda amazing. I don’t like bureaucratic authoritarian states, but in this particular case they seem to be doing something right.

Source for what you said?..

Politics are part of the system though. But if strategic supply of oil, gas, coal from undemocratic regimes was simply off the table, constitutionally forbidden and all that, I think nuclear energy would suddenly become more competitive. Because the financing of such groups would suffer.

Yes, impeding something is ultimately an increase in cost. That’s how it works.

The guy probably doesn’t know burning coal causes radioactive pollution too. All the time, not in emergencies, unlike with nuclear power.

The most unimaginably, but historically stupid thing was “green” activists protesting against nuclear power and for coal and gas.

And yes, nuclear power is very efficient. What makes it most efficient is the ability to very quickly regulate output, the improved logistics, and smaller reliance on beheading, culture-erasing, genocidal, revisionist savages getting everywhere.

You should still not pick mushrooms in parts of germany because it isn’t.

My gullible cabbage-eating friend, mushrooms are mostly safe to eat even around the Chernobyl station itself.

I mean, not now probably, there are landmines and rotting corpses and what not. But before 2022 they were.

And if you’d read something on the subject, you’d know it. Don’t be like flat-earthers and homeopathy proponents. Also “half-life” is not just a video game.

Nuclear can only work because it is heavily subsidized. If it had to compete on a level playing field, not a single plant would ever have been built in history, as they are uninsurable on the free market and no investor would touch them with a stick without huge government guarantees.

That’s not how it happened historically. Nuclear energy became more and more expensive due to regulations explicitly intended to press it out entirely. Just slowly.

People feared nuclear bombs and transferred that fear onto nuclear energy. It’s irrational.