Nuclear is going nowhere. It’s too expensive, takes too long to build, requires significant government subsidies and the failure modes have an exceptionally bad

Nuclear is going nowhere. It’s too expensive, takes too long to build, requires significant government subsidies and the failure modes have an exceptionally bad long tail. $122 billion has been spent in the Fukushima clean up to date with no end in sight. Likely this will take decades, maybe a century or more, and when all is said and done, may well cost over $1 trillion. The Chernobyl absolute exclusion zone is still quite literally 1000 square miles, nearly 40 years later. Yet the very real examples get hand waved away despite their being multiple catastrophic incidents when we’ve only built less than 700 nuclear power reactors.