Everybody cheering on nuclear seems to forget one big problem associated with it … nuclear waste. It’s just assumed that people living in remote regions will be fine and dandy having nuclear waste buried in their backyards, possibly poisoning their groundwater. Nevermind the transportation of said waste through more heavily populated areas which would lead to at least one catastrophic accident.
Imo the cost of that is far more important than what it costs to build in the first place.
Yes, nuclear waste is a problem. One we’ll need to solve in the next few decades. Those few decades will buy us time to get off of fossil fuels and onto more permanent renewable solutions though.
In* the short term, I’d much rather see more nuclear plants opening up, even with the long term drawbacks around waste storage, rather than more gas or coal plants. It’s the lesser of the two evils by a long shot.
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