• ZombiFrancis
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    1 year ago

    Even if all the costs and timescales could be reduced, the security concerns are significant. On top of that even the entire nuclear energy operation requires a (literal) higher degree of education than most alternatives, which is a ton of human resources to stay active, let alone started.

    Now we also live in a world where wind/solar/hyrdo have proven their efficacy and reliability, which we weren’t really at even 20 years ago. (Well hydro has been around.)