Re:Don’t Call Me a Pessimist on Climate Change. I Am a Realist
by dredmorbius on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @05:55AM
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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.
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.