I think there will be a lot of varying opinions on this one, so heres mine! Nuclear is very cheap and efficient as well as safe. I know Fukashima/Chernobyl/Hanford. There are hundreds of nuke plants, all over the planet, yet we only hear about them when they "melt down". Most people don't realize how many there are out there! Ukraine alone has 4 and they produce half of the countries energy!! 4 of them and only 15 reactors!! If we can ever get away from using cescuim-137 to produce the reaction that of course would rid most of nay-sayers (should anyway) by itself. Did you know there are many teams actively working on making a fission reaction out of Helium-3? Plenty of that shit just waiting around for us on the moon!! Part of the reason China is becoming interested in the space game! ;)
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Fusion hasn't happened yet in a controlled reactor.
Why not use LFTRs?
Fission u mean? I don't think I said fusion. What are LFTR's? Haven't heard that one!
3 mile island, but one, wind turbine falls over, one bird is killed by a wind turbine, then all the loonies come out from under the wood works. If it is alternative energy system, from Hydro, nuclear, coal, oil or natural gas, people go stupid over a small item that cause no damage or hurt no one, then start calling for massive regulations to price the alternative out of businesses reach. A nuclear plant failure, or leak or any problem quickly the apologist, and the spin doctors all crawl out from under their rocks to stand Firmly behind the industry. Just my own observation of course, I am sure I am totally mistaken about it. Fukushima/Chernobyl/Hanford/3-mile Island/Diablo Canyon and likely many others we never heard about. They hurt no one caused no damage and need no further regulations. As soon as an alternative safe reactor is built I can tell you that it will be demonized and blasted as unsafe by the current energy lobbies.
That same energy lobby is attacking nuclear too. There's a guy on YT, https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=galen+winsor. He talks about running several of these facilities and has some interesting details on how energy lobbies lie to suppress nuclear. Very interesting indeed!
You are absolutely right about alternatives being attacked, but some are better than others anyway! ;) At least til' more developments can be made.