Imagine the first crash near a major population center!

It's amazing, we have safe, carbon free, Nuclear power available, and no one wants to use it.

Actually, there are about 50 nuclear reactors being constructed worldwide right now, with China and India by far building the most of them. About double that number are on order worldwide, along with proposals for up to 300 additional plants around the globe. (currently about 440 active plants worldwide)


2 being built in Georgia; the US tends to kick the can down the road ('Merica!) by getting extensions on their operating leases and uprating their power generating capacity. France does the same.

Pretty encouraging, really. There's no perfect source of power, but if carbon emission control is your primary goal, nuclear power plants are the only serious game in town.

https://www.world-nuclear.org/inform...worldwide.aspx

France is reducing its use of nuclear power. Article says currently 75% going down to 50%. If memory serves me correctly, they used to be 80%.

https://www.world-nuclear.org/inform...-f/france.aspx

And Germany is abandoning nuclear all together.

https://www.wired.com/story/germany-...ssions-spiked/

It’s not about sustainable energy capable of producing the massive amounts of power that we consume, it’s about political correctness and virtue signaling. Inefficient sources like wind and solar are good, nuclear is bad. To even question the approved narrative will make you a heretic.

When Vogtle 3&4 go online over the next 18 months, GP will reduce coal consumption plants that emit 20,000 kt of CO2 per year. That's just 2 reactors, which can replace 20% of the US airline's yearly carbon footprint.


This is why there is absolutely no reason to entertain anyone pushing the climate change initiative.

Oh yeah, once we're V1 down the path of the "green energy" global scourge in mass mining, habitat devistation, environmental destruction and the eventual disposal crisis to scale, the current "green" stuff will become the pariah and something else laundered with legislation by lobbyists will take its place.

Unless its really about centralized power consolidation and continued middle class wealth redistribution.

The Climate Cult doesn't care about the environment at all. Its quite expendable to its overarching goals.

The fact that the Climate folks are against nuclear, and use the reasoning of highlighting past accidents that occurred with 50+ year old technology does tend to raise eyebrows.

If only we had a safe clean way to produce 1.21 gigawatts!

Scoop