>>13906076Big scary thing petroshills keep funding against. Yes, there's been a few catastrophic disasters, but all of them are human error induced. The waste is a problem because most of the fuel isn't used up, 95% of fuel is still fissionable the actual waste is only a few hundred years tops.
People also don't really know that the isotopes used in all sorts of medical procedures are made in reactors, two shut down and caused a molybdenum-99 shortage.
Solar is fine, but really a stopgap measure. CSP only works in areas of high insolation like spain, american southwest, MENA.
PV is only a load reducer effective on properly facing buildings/parking lots, and floating on hydroelectric reservoirs. It could be viable with thermal batteries and recycling biomass in HTL reactors and anaerobic digesters, but hey also require a lot of precious metals to make