> It’s funny how the HN crowd’s infatuation with nuclear persists Perhaps that a generally technically literate crowd sees nuclear, given the alternatives, in

> It’s funny how the HN crowd’s infatuation with nuclear persists Perhaps that a generally technically literate crowd sees nuclear, given the alternatives, in a positive light tells something.. :) > long after economics alone, Nuclear is under severe economic pressure mainly in the USA, but largely due to dirt cheap natural gas, not renewables. So if you're hoping for even more usage of fossil fuels, go ahead, keep hoping for nuclear to die out. > ignoring outright any safety arguments As we should. In terms of deaths/kWh, nuclear is about the safest energy source we have. > It was the environmental crowd you hate, by the way, plus the often maligned political class, who long ago had the foresight to push for the policies that are now enabling renewables to be competitive with fossil fuels. I'm a fan of renewables (to a point and where appropriate!), but lets use them to replace fossil fuels and not nuclear like Germany, m'kay? I count myself as an environmentalist, and I think the environmental movement has done a lot of good things. But the mainstream environmentalist campaigning against nuclear (and GMO's), is just horribly, disastrously dumb.