> infrastructure for nuclear energy generation is largely identical with that required for nuclear weapons production and maintenance Total nonsense. > It is

> infrastructure for nuclear energy generation is largely identical with that required for nuclear weapons production and maintenance Total nonsense. > It is difficult to envision nuclear energy as a global solution without also envisioning new nuclear weapons proliferation problems. Totally false. In fact to opposite is true. Many nations with civilian nuclear power don't have nuclear weapons. While many countries with nuclear weapons don't have civilian power. Very different technology. > One position that seems attractive is keeping some nuclear plants online where they exist, but not building any new capacity. Very attractive if you are pro climate change I guess. > On a long enough time scale, we can engineer around base load requirements. Yeah ok, so we are faced with climate change and we have a 100% proven technology, both in scale AND in terms of being green. But you would rather wait for some hopeful future technology that might happen as some point and then might be able to scale.