@cjd @bajax @tard @nanook @p >you're saying safety of nuclear power is intractable
caleb i am not making such an assertion. in my post, in the brief part where i did mention safety issues, that was mentioned to illustrate the straw man nanook (unknowningly?) constructed.
i wrote that the safety of nuclear power is contested, this is a very weak assertion, we need only find some nontrivial contest. but even if you ill like this, i wrote that part ("which, as far... contested?") as dramatic flair anyway, the post as written loses nothing if you omit that sentence.
ultimately the issue with nuclear power is that it several order of magnitude more expensive to construct, unless you are sitting on huge piles of cash you will be financing it, this means you will raise power costs to pay off the loan, the prices per watt hour then end up flat or higher, it is just a wealth transfer from the state to bankers.
if you have a lot of cash, you could build them and it would be a good idea, at least compared to just letting the cash sit around, but nation states are not apple or mihoyo, come to think of it didn't mihoyo build a fusion reactor? that was quite entertaining, i wonder about the details there.
