this is a subject that the USA gov and China even agree on. It is such a shame westerners have such a negative reaction to nuclear energy. but it isn't as profitable as fossil fuels/selling new electric cars so :meow-shining:

https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/advantages-and-challenges-nuclear-energy

https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202106/1227103.shtml

  • Orcocracy [comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    That's the thing with nuclear power. We can talk about how the designs are very safe and disasters are very unlikely and so on, but a nuclear reactor ends up breaking in what are often rather preventable ways about once or twice a decade, sometimes quite catastrophically.