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Which is why we need nuclear power.



Presumably you're suggesting nuclear because it's carbon free. But if that's the goal, both wind and solar are cheaper now. So nuclear would be a misallocation of resource, reducing the ability to spend on other efforts.

And if that carbon-free electricity is going to charge the batteries of machinery to do this, wind and solar will be just as good at that.


Perhaps so. With inherently safe designs, though.

Not some simplistic scale-up of Rickover's submarine engine.


>With inherently safe designs, though.

Funny how with reactors always the new designs are "safer" or "100% safe". Until time passes, and those are the "old unsafe designs". It's like there's an industry selling and promoting them each time (no, wait...)


After Fukushima nuclear fission power is dead and burred.





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