Obvious things are often wrong. There is insufficient uranium 235 to run the world and closed fuel cycles are even more expensive than PWRs that don't catch fir

Obvious things are often wrong. There is insufficient uranium 235 to run the world and closed fuel cycles are even more expensive than PWRs that don't catch fire or shut down constantly due to corrosion. Wind was available and proven viable (albeit slightly more expensive in the first prototype than coal with no emissions controls) before the first fission reactor. The first practical (albeit misunderstood) PV array was 1906. A fraction of the investment put renewables further down the learning curve than nuclear. If these myths about nuclear were true, then china would not be building a single gas or coal plant right now. They have all the ingredients present in the US mythical golden age. Uranium mined by enslaved indigenous people and colonised foreigners with no safety, a government capable of steamrolling any opposition, a massive highly experienced and underpaid construction workforce, many recently built reactors, no environmental regulation, pressure and funding from military interests for plutonium. And yet they are constructing more coal than nuclear and an order of magnitude more renewables than both combined. Why? > I had given up on people accepting nuclear power, but now it's finally getting really, really popular You're confusing your own shilling in an echo chamber for popularity. Just because the industry is astroturfing like crazy and now has the backing of the fossil fuel industry's propaganda machine doesn't make it popular.