RE: https://dmv.community/@pixelpusher220/117494239975188736
I'm generally kinda sorta pro-nuclear, based on the assumption that the risks and the storage problems are outweighed by the certainty and severity of the harm done by fossil fuels, but I'm not sure I'm all that pro-nuclear in this dysregulatory environment.
Of course, if we weren't trying to provoke a war with Canada, the best neighbor a country could ever hope to share a border with, our "spent fuel" waste would be exactly what they need for their CANDU reactors.
One of the very few things President Carter got wrong, before the dark times, before Reagan, was cancelling the breeder reactors. If spent fuel is raw material for more fuel, it's not waste that causes a long term storage problem.
@frobozz yeah I'm against nuclear simply because it's cost, time to production and risks are just the worst of every source. If the waste issue is solved, that's great but it still is the single most expensive option available and the slowest to build. lol
And all that said, we absolutely need nuclear for the next 15-30 years as renewables scale. Do we have enough already in pipeline? That's the big gamble. Given the pace renewables are scaling...I think we do.
Another interesting factoid about molten salt nuclear is it can literally eat our fission waste as fuel.
But still that ever fanciful 20 years(!) away.