> Sure, and the only reason we aren't there is because of those hippies. It isn't like half of the research budget since the 50s went to nuclear research, and o

> Sure, and the only reason we aren't there is because of those hippies. It isn't like half of the research budget since the 50s went to nuclear research, and only 11% to renewables. That funding only went to variants of nuclear power that synergized with the military applications that drove that funding in the first place. Molten Salt Reactors have none of the characteristics that enabled Fukushima and yet research was abandoned on them. Regardless, we need to start acting now, and that means choosing solutions that are proven or at least exist today.