Where is the west planning to get their uranium and dump their nuclear waste? You know, the kind that stays around for a very long time. And what about the toxic and potentially radioactive mining waste?
Do we even have the capacity to mine that much uranium without resorting to stuff like open pit uranium mines in the global south? Only 10% of world power is nuclear. The current coal mining situation definitely is not good, TB is still one of the leading causes of death in countries that have large mining sectors. Now imagine that with uranium mines.
Unless bleeder reactors become very efficient, there is simply not enough uranium out there that can be mined economically to power the majority of the world for a long period of time, unless you plan to turn Australia into one giant open pit uranium mine (very critical support to that idea lol, but not really of course as it will hurt marginalised people the most).
Nuclear power, while not renewable power, has the same pitfalls. There is simply not enough resources on the planet to run it for any long period of time as the majority of our electricity. In the same way there is not enough litium and raw materials to make solar panels and battery packs for the entire world, there is not enough uranium.
Both renewables and nuclear have a place in modern energy plans, and fossil fuels need to go out the window, but that's ignoring the elephant in the room. We simply (mainly the first world) consume too much. No amount of nuclear energy or innovation in renewables is going to dig us out of that hole.
Where is the west planning to get their uranium and dump their nuclear waste? You know, the kind that stays around for a very long time. And what about the toxic and potentially radioactive mining waste?
Do we even have the capacity to mine that much uranium without resorting to stuff like open pit uranium mines in the global south? Only 10% of world power is nuclear. The current coal mining situation definitely is not good, TB is still one of the leading causes of death in countries that have large mining sectors. Now imagine that with uranium mines.
Unless bleeder reactors become very efficient, there is simply not enough uranium out there that can be mined economically to power the majority of the world for a long period of time, unless you plan to turn Australia into one giant open pit uranium mine (very critical support to that idea lol, but not really of course as it will hurt marginalised people the most).
Nuclear power, while not renewable power, has the same pitfalls. There is simply not enough resources on the planet to run it for any long period of time as the majority of our electricity. In the same way there is not enough litium and raw materials to make solar panels and battery packs for the entire world, there is not enough uranium.
Both renewables and nuclear have a place in modern energy plans, and fossil fuels need to go out the window, but that's ignoring the elephant in the room. We simply (mainly the first world) consume too much. No amount of nuclear energy or innovation in renewables is going to dig us out of that hole.