Comment by KennyBlanken
10 hours ago
Same with nuclear. The most expensive form of electricity generation there is. No grid operator wants to touch it, but the nuclear industry has been very busy lobbying congress and both the current and last administration.
Nuclear is incredibly energy dense, can be stockpiled for a long time and is extremely safe. Yes its expensive but its one those industries any serious nation needs to subsidise for the energy security it offers and the countless high skill jobs it fosters.
Well, no it's never been extremely safe by any stretch of the imagination.
That's just an extreme interpretation of the way it's not as extremely unsafe as it could be.
Plus at the rate it's being addressed by a few enthusiasts, it could be getting remarkably safer, maybe even in one person's lifetime someday.
Developments may be positive but it makes the most sense to be realistic and avoid the completely unfounded hype involved.
Plus when nuclear works best the high-skill jobs resulting have to be as non-countless as possible, that's one of the big factors which might someday allow the economics to be less unfavorable.
It's extremely safe, except in the event of a black swan event, in which case it becomes extremely unsafe.
This is compared to, for example, a coal plant, which is quite unsafe to be near constantly, all the time.
Well, this is just boomer lunatic anti-nuclear FUD. It is not what the numbers say.
The only reason nuclear is expensive is because of ignorant and neurotic ativists FUD and the idiot politics listening to them.