Nuclear power is supported by many climate scientists. I think technically it's a fantastic solution. However, I don't think it's a great socio-economic solutio

Nuclear power is supported by many climate scientists. I think technically it's a fantastic solution. However, I don't think it's a great socio-economic solution and the costs if we fail to deal with climate change may be too high. Let me explain. Earlier this year a nuclear power plant in Finland had to reduce capacity because the sea waters got too warm. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-finland-nuclear-fortum-oyj/warm-sea-water-in-finland-caused-capacity-reduction-in-loviisa-nuclear-plant-idUSKBN1KF2CO https://www.reuters.com/article/us-finland-nuclear-fortum-oy... This is one example where climate change may make it difficult to operate nuclear power plants. Another is that the seas are rising and storms are getting slower which results in more flooding. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/14/florence-climate-change-triple-threat https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/14/floren... These together make operating nuclear power plants difficult. The last threat is that if we reach the tipping point, we will likely be facing a world where nation states start failing, including our own. Nuclear power plants take decades to decommission and the question is, who will maintain and decommission these things when humanity is faced with much more pressing concerns like maintaining organized human life. The tipping point is a real concern among scientists. The IPCC recommends policy makers take the real possibility of a tipping point into account and I think questions like "How do we deal with nuclear power plants as nation-states fail" should be taken seriously. https://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/wg3/en/ch2s2-2-3.html https://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/wg3/en/ch2s2-2... Prominent members in our field like Alan Kay also wrote about tipping points in a report for the NSF Transitions and Tipping Points in Complex Environmental Systems https://www.nsf.gov/ere/ereweb/ac-ere/nsf6895_ere_report_090809.pdf https://www.nsf.gov/ere/ereweb/ac-ere/nsf6895_ere_report_090... I'm not a pessimist but a realist. I think it's utopian to not address the concerns of climate scientists and really smart people in our field when making policy decisions, and this includes nuclear.