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I nuclear has a place. Nuclear generates energy and lots of it.
Take a look at this table and check out uranium:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density#List_of_materia...
The thing is, just like we are developing solar, we have to develop nuclear. We should drive the cost down, and safety up.
Boiling water reactors are very expensive, in the same way solar power was in the Jimmy Carter era:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_cell#/media/File:Price_h...
We should be working on stable reactors, safe ones that don't need active intervention to shut down, and work to make them available.
By all means we should also work on solar and wind, but we should keep nuclear active.
We should be working to have MORE CO2 free power, of different kinds, that will work during a variety of conditions.
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I nuclear has a place. Nuclear generates energy and lots of it.
Take a look at this table and check out uranium:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density#List_of_materia...
The thing is, just like we are developing solar, we have to develop nuclear. We should drive the cost down, and safety up.
Boiling water reactors are very expensive, in the same way solar power was in the Jimmy Carter era:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_cell#/media/File:Price_h...
We should be working on stable reactors, safe ones that don't need active intervention to shut down, and work to make them available.
By all means we should also work on solar and wind, but we should keep nuclear active.
We should be working to have MORE CO2 free power, of different kinds, that will work during a variety of conditions.