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Re:Don’t Call Me a Pessimist on Climate Change. I Am a Realist by fouc on Tuesday November 12, 2019 @08:00PM (#21520089)
There's a limited number of spots to stick a nuclear reactor. So it's hard to actually scale that up.
Re:Don’t Call Me a Pessimist on Climate Change. I Am a Realist by dredmorbius on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @05:55AM (#21522806)
Of the many strikes against nuclear power, a paucity of siting locations is almost certainly well down the list.

Something I say as no particular fan (though also not a doctrinaire opponent) of nuclear power.

The fact that scaling nuclear beyond its present contribution would require vast numbers of plants, many in politically (and otherwise) unstable regions, is a much larger concern in my book. We're committing to decades to millennia of addressing consequences in regions where stability is often measured in years, sometimes months.