Just stop. We don't even have to consider the unlimited public liability, submitting to geopolitical domination, giving monopoly power over the economy to a han

Just stop. We don't even have to consider the unlimited public liability, submitting to geopolitical domination, giving monopoly power over the economy to a handful of fuel prpviders and existential threats anymore because nuclear reactors are so bad that subsidized ones cannot even compete against renewables at high latitudes. For the build price of 1 watt of nuclear plant which will be at best 90% available (but more likely 60-80) you can get a solar/wind mix at retail micro generation prices further from the equator than 90% of the population with zero hours of producing less than 1 watt (much of which is dispatchable too) and 1 additional net watt of variable energy. Allow for the same availability as a nuclear reactor and the price is a fraction. Then for just the running costs of an already built nuclear you can pay the whole thing off before the reactor even opens. Give it five years and the LCOE of solar will be less than the fuel costs. The solution was to stop wasting billions on nuclear and subsidizing fossil fuels and actually invest in renewable tech half a century ago. Solar energy density is such that just covering structures and open paved areas in any region with less than 10k people per km^2 can cover average primary energy (not just electricity). It's far less than cattle grazing land or land used for fuel ethanol to greenwash the auto industry. The land use is a complete non-issue.