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where is nuclear in your theory?

• beat 11y ago
  In my theory, nuclear is mostly irrelevant. It's not a model for the third world (who can't afford or operate reactors, even if the rich nations would let them have one), it's not a model for low population densities, and it generally costs in the billions and requires the involvement of both local government and international regulatory agencies. Sure, UPower and others are working on reactors that are small scale, cheaper, safe, and hard to weaponize. But they're still a limited solution to the problems I'm bringing up. Fusion is a fantasy. Maybe someday it will be real, but betting the world on it is foolish. Solar is cheap, fine-grained, clean, sustainable, and not weaponizable. It solves all my core problems. Why should I care about difficult, expensive, dangerous nuclear?