One of the really tedious types of comment I keep seeing on HN whenever someone posts about some possible or new nuclear power project can be summed up as "But

One of the really tedious types of comment I keep seeing on HN whenever someone posts about some possible or new nuclear power project can be summed up as "But nuclear is no good/too expensive because it just can't do X and Y, so why bother?!". Sure, maybe, right now some of these kinds of criticisms apply, but we're talking about a technology that's barely been given much room to develop seriously in most cases. In others, where it has been allowed a bit more leeway for development, it's shown itself to be remarkably useful. For example, in the reactors aboard military vessels, or with RTGs. These sorts of of criticisms such as above seem absurd, especially when you imagine there were indeed people saying roughly similar things about technologies like solar power back in the 70s, or powered flight close to the turn of the 20th century. It's foolish to shun the entire scope of a technology if its present state of development is the only one you know anything about. This applies so especially to nuclear power, which so very obviously has considerably more potential, without even going into more exotic territories like sustainable fusion energy.