There's a fair amount of snark there but I would agree that environmentalists being against nuclear energy is one of the most unfortunate impediments to a sane

There's a fair amount of snark there but I would agree that environmentalists being against nuclear energy is one of the most unfortunate impediments to a sane climate change in modern years - the constant lobbying and sheer economic force of fossil fuel companies has definitely had a stronger negative impact but everyone I meet someone who associates with environmentalism that is anti-nuke I want to bop them over the head. I even formally lived in Vermont where Vermont Yankee made an absolute mess of running a responsible and clean plant (releasing a lot of very bad stuff into local water supplies) and yet all those released carcinogens are still not nearly to the level you can expect from good ol' coal power (even if you use a brillo pad on the coal first). That all said - the amount of power we'd need for carbon sequestration with our current technological prowess dwarfs what we're producing at the moment and would require a massive investment in human and material capital that I don't believe the US (at least) is willing to deal with. The only nation that I'd really hold my breath here for is France which, while it has some significant issues itself, it has a strong advantage in having a workforce that is actually trained to operate and care for nuclear plants.