I know HN has its cadre of pro-nuclear devotees but until we have some large technological breakthroughs, nuclear power isn't going anywhere long term. Fusion

I know HN has its cadre of pro-nuclear devotees but until we have some large technological breakthroughs, nuclear power isn't going anywhere long term. Fusion as it exists today (eg ITER) is a massive boondoggle. Hydrogen fusion fundamentally loses energy from neutron escape. To add insult to injury, those neutrons also destroy the reactor. As for fission, of the almost 700 fission plants humanity has ever built, exactly zero have been built without massive government subsidy. Why? Because they're expesnive to build, maintain and operate, uneconomically so. And that's before you even get into the issues such as: - What do you do with the fuel processing waste (eg UF6)? Some claim this problem is solved (eg reprocessing UF6 -> UF4) but it's not solved but it's not economic; - What to do with the fuel waste? Putting it somewhere geologically stable and hoping for the best for thousands of years is... less than ideal. - Can humans be trusted to run nuclear plants long term? Corporations notoriously cut costs that don't have immediate impact but the failure modes of fission plants are catastrophic. Governments too suffer from corruption; - Can governments regulate fission plants at scale? I support Germany delaying nuclear power plant closure because of this crisis but this in no way will be a return to nuclear power. But let's examine how we got here and this is the part that makes people unreasonably mad for some reason. Yes, Putin is the unjustified aggressor but you cannot ignore what role US foreign policy played in creating the Ukraine crisis through NATO. The US would never accept the equivalent level of expansion of a hostile military alliance the way we somehow expect Russia to. I mean the US almost started World War Three over Cuba after instigating the Cuban Missile Crisis by installing Jupiter MRBMs in Turkey. This war in Ukraine is a massive boon to the US military industrial complex. The level of military aid we're giving to Ukraine is oddly similar to the income defense contractors "lost" by ending the war in Afghanistan.. Weird, huh?