• gmtom@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Weird that every country in the world others than China put up these same arbitrary regulatory barriers at around the same time. Can you describe what these barriers are and why they are unnecessary?

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      1 year ago

      One is that nuclear power has to account for and financially compensate its passive radiation emissions. This is unique to nuclear power, even though passive emissions from nuclear plants are less than 10 times lower than radiation emissions from coal power plants. Clearly we don’t care that much about the harmful effects of the radiation emissions, and if we do then coal should be charged for the current and past emissions.

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        1 year ago

        Can you send me a link? Because I’m looking for this regulation and can’t find it? Or at least tell me which country?