Good, than nuclear is nothing we have to think about because it's construction times are ridiculously long while renewable energy is getting better and cheaper rapidly.
> Our nations have plenty of money it's just all concentrated at the very top. We used to fund advanced reactor projects [1]
We've been throwing ridiculous amounts of taxpayer money on that for decades. Show is over. Time to give the money to technologies of the future not ones of the past.
Even France sees this: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-nuclearpower-astri...
A law (2015-992, from 2015, the "loi relative à la transition énergétique pour la croissance verte") states that the part of nuke-produced electricity must fall to less than 50% in 2025, from 72% then, and that renewables must replace it.
2 years later the government (lacking funds and unable to cope) reported it to 2025, then 2 years later to 2035 ("programmation pluriannuelle de l'énergie").
However the political and strategical orientation is perfectly clear, just don't believe France is on the nuke camp.
I don't buy that waste is a serious problem. The US treats all secondary waste as if it's red hot. And as I said above, all extant reactor designs are decades old.
If your only point of comparison is 60 year old computers using 10s of kilowatts, you might argue that computers will never be economical to use. Yet smartphone CPUs have a TDP of what, one watt?
> Until now the taxpayer covers it, but our impoverished nations just cannot cope anymore.
Our nations have plenty of money it's just all concentrated at the very top. We used to fund advanced reactor projects [1]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molten-Salt_Reactor_Experiment