Bit of an obvious conclusion, UN nuclear head says nuclear 'good', but at least it's being brought up in solution talks
Nuclear power still is too slow, too resource-intensive, too unmanageable in the long term. There's better ways.
Could it be that a combination of ways is actually best?
"If it ain't one size fits all it ain't good enough!"
It's slow and expensive because of the legal red tape... Only with a nuclear power plant do you have ro have the ENTIRE specific site design done before you can even think of touching dirt, but it has to go through mandatory rounds of review and approval, too.
In what universe do you know of where several rounds of mandatory government inspection of just the plans makes anything go quickly?!
Slow in comparison to the possible upscaling of renewable energy sources. We need to get off fossil energies quickly to tackle climate issues.
The point is it is artificially slow. It does not inherently take many years to build a plant when they have general workable plans. Not any more than any other major construction, including renewables.
Ever considered that that red tape exists for a reason? And that cutting it could have bad consequences?
Ever consider all the fear mongering nuclear got? The engineers know what they're doing. It's safer than fossil fuel plants and other dangerous industrial work these days. And no, all the ignorant fucks who are also afraid of nuclear that will vote you up don't make you correct.
Nuclear engineers are the same people who helped create these regulations...
Nuclear is really safe today, thanks to those regulations. We've changed and improved those power plants a lot in the past half century. I don't consider safety a real issue anymore, but if we cut all red tape and regulations, then it does become an issue again. That's nuclear engineers saying so by the way, not "ignorant fucks".
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