Nuclear is expensive due to politics, not pure science or economics Nuclear is unpopular because it has been vilified and made an emotional argument. Plus you

Nuclear is expensive due to politics, not pure science or economics Nuclear is unpopular because it has been vilified and made an emotional argument. Plus you can't see, touch, taste or feel radiation - the ultimate boogyman to trigger our lizard brain. Nuclear "waste" is waste only due to politics and stupidity. Everything we classify as "waste" today is not waste for other reactor designs that will more than happily (and safely!) burn that "waste" and turn it into useful energy. If you were able to separate out politics and emotion from the nuclear "debate" there wouldn't be a debate. It would be a slam dunk no brainer decision. Luckily for China their despotic internal rule doesn't have to suffer fools for stuff like this. They are charging ahead with Thorium and god help the rest of the world if they crack it at scale. Then people will see just how critical a role energy is to the success of a civilization. All of our ridiculous and continued postering around energy while not really doing anything significant (and all the resources wasted on many renewables that are anything but) is going to bite the west in the ASS big time. Rome is burning and we are fiddling.