And you miss the point yet again. The problem wasn’t with nuclear, it was that nuclear was tied to things that the Pubs did not support like mandating renewables. Germany mandated renewables and their electricity prices went up 60% in five years. Germany is also phasing out nuclear by 2022. All these mandates resulted in higher prices and grid instability. The net result is that Germany is now relying on coal and actually increased their carbon output.
But them republicans are stupid for not following Germany’s lead, right?
The hard truth, though you may wish it isn’t so, is that we need energy and renewables are not reliable enough to handle the baseload. Which leaves fossil fuels and nuclear.
And if you don’t want fossil fuels that leaves nuclear. Yet Obama killed Yucca so the waste problem is set back at least 20 years.
Throw in the lawsuits from liberal and Nimby groups whenever a plant is planned and nuclear is all but dead. It takes roughly 20 years to wade through the lawsuits so the plants that are built use older, less safe technology. It is just stupid.
Nuclear is safe, even including the latest accident wind kills more people per TWH than
Nuclear. But the fear monitoring, generally done by liberals and Nimbys, creates the impression that nuclear isn’t safe.
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