I should have been more nuanced: we shouldn't be building out the current design of fission power in order to decarbonize our electricity production. The bigges

I should have been more nuanced: we shouldn't be building out the current design of fission power in order to decarbonize our electricity production. The biggest reason is that it just takes far too long to build: we're talking 15-20 years. Wind and solar can scale far more quickly than that. Closing existing nuclear power plants like they're doing in Germany is absolute lunacy. For heat that timeline is acceptable given that it can be "decarbonized" by switching to burning biomass to cover the transition. If we could build safe nuclear electric plants within a reasonable timeframe and cost then we should absolutely do it (this would make so much sense in huge countries like the US or China because you can have the reactors located well away from large populations).