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  • Nuclear is a horrible option though. It takes ages to come online (10+ years builds are the norm), is more expensive than solar/wind plus batteries right now, has to basically operate for a minimum of 40 years to turn a profit because of how expensive the build is to begin with and requires a steady output of energy so would only be good as a base load. Also, it requires big power grid infrastructure to deliver gigawatts in power from a single source, so exactly the opposite of most current renewables and even if you’d replace nuclear with a renewable and reused it’s grid, you’d now have to find a place that is good for either.

    Then there is the whole environmental stuff like radiation and the point that the whole earth is heading towards 2.8c higher temperatures and the fact that countries like France have to reduce their output of reactors in the summer because of water temperatures in the rivers they use for cooling.