> It seems to me the question for some is less "how do we get some progress" and more "how do we get some progress using my favorite technology". As I said, I

> It seems to me the question for some is less "how do we get some progress" and more "how do we get some progress using my favorite technology". As I said, I am very happy about the exponential growth in solar and wind. But nuclear is not just any technology. It is a miracle of nature and a crowning achievement of science and technology. The energy released when one nucleus splits is millions of times the energy released when electrons rearrange their orbitals during chemical reactions. The efficiency of fission is just 1000 times lower than the efficiency of the E=mc^2, which is to say of the ultimate reaction, the matter-antimatter reaction. Fusion is 6 times more energy dense than fission, but fission we have and fusion we don't.