Yes but that is a nuclear power plant that didn't even operate for 50 years and now completely made the environment uninhabitable, as well as incurred a massive

Yes but that is a nuclear power plant that didn't even operate for 50 years and now completely made the environment uninhabitable, as well as incurred a massive cost to the people to have to rebuild it...again. If that were a coal or natural gas plant, Okuma would still be habitable and everyone wouldn't have needed to been evacuated. Another problem about nuclear power is it's hard to find a reliable resource of uranium. There is a finite amount of it that is not as readily accessible or abundant as all the other resources. Nuclear energy is a pipe dream. Whats the point in even building a cheap reactor (4 million USD) if you need to maintain it and then when demand increases so highly that there isn't enough uranium to go around. What then? Do the people in the north just go cold during the winter? It's no more sustainable than the current system, except there is a definitive projection that it couldn't sustain this population long term. Green renewable energy is clearly the future, however we will never truly be able to convert to it until we can reliable transfer mechanical energy into things like batteries which can power things for a long time. Even major wind farms in Europe only supplement power usage. They cannot keep up with demand since they can only output what the wind gives. We're a long ways out from a green revolution. Energy storage, capacity, 1:1 conversion of energy to power, and reliable power all need to happen first.