It will be decades until newer reactor designs are proven and deployable. All the reactors built today will have a lifetime of the old problems - incidents, st

It will be decades until newer reactor designs are proven and deployable. All the reactors built today will have a lifetime of the old problems - incidents, storage, etc - for decades to come. The uncertainty of wind and solar energy is overblown. There are ways to mitigate those problems. Major polluters are in developing countries and those with poor regulatory regimes. Even ramping up nuclear production in relatively "clean" industrialized democracies is a risking "slippage" in terms of accidents, nuclear material getting in the wrong hands, getting disposed of improperly or being abused. Nuclear material in the ground water anywhere would be a catastrophe. There is currently an iron fist around the nuclear industry to prevent such things, and that is incompatible with replacing all or most of the fossil fuel production in the world...