Ferret on Nostr: @[url=]Emeritus Prof Christopher May[/url] The reason continues to be that nuclear is ...

@[url=https://zirk.us/@ChrisMayLA6]Emeritus Prof Christopher May[/url] The reason continues to be that nuclear is super unpopular with...well, everyone. It's one thing the right wing and the "left" can agree on, if they're both uneducated and stuck in the 80s, that nuclear is 'dangerous' and they don't want it.

Setting up nuclear, especially good, modern nuclear, [i]is[/i] expensive. It also lasts basically forever and pays for itself easily in the long term, along with being very clean and reliable, able to be installed essentially anywhere. If we want to get off fossil fuels, we need reactors turned on, because there is never going to be a country that runs entirely off solar and wind. That would be just asking for shortages during times like droughts, storms, eruptions, and other disasters that would impact solar or wind generation, when the power is needed most. Geothermal is good and reliable too, in places where it's viable, but if you want efficient and clean power, you need nuclear right now.