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Originally Posted by O.city
Which is dumb
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In the abstract, yes. Compared to, say, coal, it burns "clean" and very, very efficiently. In fact, when nuclear power was first coming into play, people literally thought that electricity would be free in the future. That it would be so cheap and plentiful that it wouldn't be worth the time to meter and bill it. THAT is how efficient nuclear power is.
But let's be serious -- would you want anyone to build a nuclear power plant within, let's say, ten miles of your house? Even if YOU are ok with it, you know that it will affect the value of your property when you go to sell, so the answer is "no".
And events like Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, Fukushima Daiichi and other, lesser, incidents keep the dangerousness issue at the forefront of people's consciousness.
Then you have another concern -- terrorism. A nuclear plant makes a FAR more tempting target for some psycho than a solar plant.
Solar and other renewables are the future, not nuclear. There are issues with solar, but they are the type of things that drive up costs not the type of things that result in death. If engineers ran the world, we'd be all nuclear already, but they don't, and that's just how it is.