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I don’t understand why we’re not going to nuclear.

• davkan 1y ago
  Nobody wants a plant in their backyard, nobody wants to store the waste in their state, the investment takes the length of career to pay off.
• AndrewDucker 1y ago
  Too expensive
• atwrk 1y ago
  Because it is outrageously expensive compared to renewables, you can't turn it off at night, it takes literally decades to build, and nobody wants it near where they live.
  • energy123 1y ago
    And even once you have it, you still need storage and/or overbuilding, because demand itself is idiosyncratic.
• timbit42 1y ago
  It takes a long time to build them. By the time they are built, the economics for them will be much worse than they already are relative to solar, wind, and hydro.