Solar and wind could be better alternatives in the future. Today, Germany is among the European countries with least clean power thanks to coal and natural gas

Solar and wind could be better alternatives in the future. Today, Germany is among the European countries with least clean power thanks to coal and natural gas use — https://app.electricitymaps.com/zone/DE https://app.electricitymaps.com/zone/DE. Principally nuclear countries like Finland, France, and Sweden produce a kWh of power with 5x-20x less carbon emissions. The figures are even better in countries relying more on hydro energy. The nuclear waste is a real problem, but a nearly inconsequential one compared to global warming and carbon emissions from coal and natural gas. We have geological storage and reprocessing methods for nuclear waste. Fast Breeder Reactors and Molten Salt Reactors can consume what's considered nuclear waste and the latter can produce short-lived waste (dangerous for 300 years instead of thousands), which we can definitely store. The biggest challenges for nuclear reactors are political, both because people are against the reactors as they were unsafe/used for WMD production in the past, and because having nuclear energy tips the energy and power balance (countries like Russia would rather see Europe depending on their energy). The engineering and safety challenges are irrelevant in comparison.