Comment Re:No new nuclear just prolongs coal and oil use (Score 1) 28
That's due to politics. And renewables are increasing coming under the same harassing, delaying tactics, that we have seen with nuclear for so long. NIMBY, environmentalists,
You noticed that too? It seems that any solution that is proposed for fighting global warming must be some new technology that is expensive and experimental. Once this new technology becomes the norm then this same group that promoted it finds reasons to hate it, then seeks some other new expensive experimental energy to promote.
I've seen videos from what must have been in the 1970s or 1980s, with politicians out of California, talking big and proudly of their use of nuclear fission and natural gas to reduce air pollution. But that tune changed once nuclear power and natural gas got to be the norm, now they are hated.
That said, we should still be in an all-of-the-above mode that includes nuclear. The only sources off the table should be coal and oil. Displace the dirtiest first. If you don't include nuclear you are just prolonging coal and oil usage.
Subject matter experts agree, if there isn't nuclear fission in the energy mix then it leaves us not only with low air quality but also on a path to poverty.
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