The amount of people here who think they know what they are talking about because they watched a Ted talk one time is infuriating.
Everybody basically completely ignoring the deep deep interconnection between the military need for nuclear weapons and the nuclear industry they grew up from that.
The problems of planning, building, maintaining, decommissioning and waste storage of a nuclear plant are absolutely huge, and they are incredibly expensive and take exceptionally long to build.
They are not the 'one neat trick' to solving climate change held back by annoying hippies and ignorant NIMBYs a large proportion of comments here imply.
That's not to say there is no place for current, and even some new build nuclear, But most countries and regions will have better and cheaper solutions if properly planned. Directing research to safer and simpler nuclear solutions is also good - but a very long term goal.
The amount of people here who think they know what they are talking about because they watched a Ted talk one time is infuriating.
Everybody basically completely ignoring the deep deep interconnection between the military need for nuclear weapons and the nuclear industry they grew up from that.
The problems of planning, building, maintaining, decommissioning and waste storage of a nuclear plant are absolutely huge, and they are incredibly expensive and take exceptionally long to build.
They are not the 'one neat trick' to solving climate change held back by annoying hippies and ignorant NIMBYs a large proportion of comments here imply.
That's not to say there is no place for current, and even some new build nuclear, But most countries and regions will have better and cheaper solutions if properly planned. Directing research to safer and simpler nuclear solutions is also good - but a very long term goal.