>>13418268Because coal and the technology to process it is cheap? And its got good efficiency?
Nuclear has a bad reputation although smog causes more deaths per year than radiation ever has.
Also the big problem with fission is long term storage of waste material. The tendency is not to trust the powers that be to have long term responsible disposal aims.
"Lets ship the shit to Ethiopia. We'll give them 50 pesos and some corn and they'll take 50 tons of spent uranium"
All in all nuclear is actually brilliant as a technology.
There is also the contention that the Nuclear industry started out wrong. It came from military technology. Generation one reactors were either scaled up military reactors or they were designed without sufficient containment to save pesos.