If I could upvote this a hundred times. It is easy to mock the public for not getting nuclear power and being paranoid.
People today have really forgotten how much people got lied to constantly about nuclear power. France which they like to pull out as this amazing nuclear country built all the reactors they hype up by faking safety checks on nuclear reactors.
It is just really naive to assume every nuclear plant is run by the books.
People complain about over regulation of the nuclear industry. Yeah… they kind of brought that upon themselves.
How many coal plants are scheduled for construction, this decade?
The only place I have heard of plans to build literally any coal plants at all is in China, but they have not broken ground on them. China also says it will build hundreds of nukes, but has started only a few. It is building out solar and wind farms like nobody's business. China is always happy to cancel plans for what they turn out not to need. They even abandon things they spent big money on that turn out redundant: lately, a record-setting bridge you can read about.
We read about coal plants being shut down and scrapped, everywhere. The only place where coal plants are brought back online is in Europe in response to a regional crisis involving a war. Are you sure you want to stake claims about long-term policy based on emergency response to a war? That seems like a very courageous position to take.
People today have really forgotten how much people got lied to constantly about nuclear power. France which they like to pull out as this amazing nuclear country built all the reactors they hype up by faking safety checks on nuclear reactors.
It is just really naive to assume every nuclear plant is run by the books.
People complain about over regulation of the nuclear industry. Yeah… they kind of brought that upon themselves.