I’m surprised by all the angry comments of people on this thread, people don’t realize the true potential modern nuclear energy has, to produce a lot of energy and just right besides where that energy is needed, one of the biggest problems of renewables is that you don’t get to choose where they are produced, so in most cases it implies transmission lines, very high capacity ones and very long ones, my country recently had a country wide outage caused by the failure of one of those that caused a cascading failure.

I’m not saying that renewables aren’t incredible tech, they are, they really do, like they’re one of the best sources of energy available, but they aren’t perfect, and them being complemented with nuclear would do a big deal of good, as I said before nuclear has it’s own unique strengths that can help out a lot.

And also I see a lot of people here talking from outright ignorance about the state of the arts of the tech, it has advanced a lot since the 1950’s lol, and repeat the same arguments, forever debunked, people do about nuclear that frustrating, Fukushima and Chernobyl were both plants with stupidly old tech, run by clowns and ignoring really well known risks for the sake of the lulz, even when all nuclear accidents combined, the tech has killed a fraction of people than what hidro has killed, modern tech is heaps more advanced and has included everything needed for that sort of accident to be impossible, even nuclear waste is a solved problem, the only thing stopping it from fully materializing is political will (Altough is kind of a blessing in hiding because now tech to use spent fuel seems to be the future also).

IDK, people do disappoint on their ignorance.