The discussion just goes around and around in a huge circle. Nuclear is so dangerous. Well no…it’s not when we actually look rationally at it. But nuclear is so costly. Well, no…it’s more expensive than coal, but it’s not actually as expensive as it seems when you look at the costs of construction over the lifetime of the plant and the fact that fuel costs are very low (and that money is actually set aside for final disposal of the site in the maintenance costs). But alternatives like wind and solar are the way to go. Well, no…they just can’t scale up to meet our needs currently, and without a whole range of fundamental breakthroughs they aren’t going to be able too. Certainly they aren’t today. But rooftop solar is going to make large scale solar plants AND nuclear obsolete! Well, no, because even disregarding the massive costs and the human costs there would have to be a bunch of those fundamental breakthroughs that would have to happen in order for that to work on the scales we are talking about.
But nuclear is so dangerous…
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-XT