Nuclear is not laughably unclean, this is a common misconception. Nuclear radiation is vastly less damaging to the homeostasis of the planet and the life on it than any hydro carbon fuel source . Not to mention there is a lot of radiation produced in the burning of hydrocarbons. and things like solar and wind require vast expenditure of hydrocarbon generated energy to install and maintain.

Not to mention the land.

Nuclear energy is more compact and generate vastly more energy comparatively. Which is what makes it more carbon neutral than anything else. It’s the only tech that could basically fulfill the needs of the U.S. power grid as it’s constituted today and then some.

Obviously the demands of the U.S. power grid as it’s constituted today are ridiculous and I’m all in favor of de-growth in the western world but it’s the only tech that could light the entire world without choking it in smog simultaneously. And also leave enough room for human society AND untouched wilderness.

Don’t let the stink of the Cold War lead you away from what is the superior technology comrades. The capitalists just dislike nuclear power because they only ever saw it as a weapon. That and they’re just short sighted and have an incoherent understanding of value.

Nuclear power plants could theoretically become so efficient that it becomes patently absurd for anyone to be deriving a profit from them. There just won’t be enough churn to mask or justify the exploitation. The degree of mining necessary would be so minimal too, especially considering already buried nuclear “waste” could theoretically be utilized as fuel.

I will die on this hill before I entertain being Anprim.