So looking at the article it seems to be against small scale traditional (fission/boiler) systems. Which are fair game. They were pretty much outdated over 50 years ago. I would be more interested in studies on dispersed Thorium Reactors which held far more potential as little as a decade ago.

Nuclear technologies missed their window. The use cases where they are the best technical solution now are extremely limited, and that means you can get the investment going to improve them.

It’s a curiosity now.

So, essentially, nuclear power is like airships, except with worse disasters?

More people died in airship incidents rhan in civil nuclear power.

Mmmm. Looking at:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airship

Roughly I’d say it’s at most 200-300 people. Airships just didn’t carry many at once.

If you look at:

en.wikipedia.org/…/List_of_nuclear_and_radiation_…

You easily go past the airships estimate. One that surprised me was: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windscale_fire

“Estimated 100 to 240 cancer fatalities in the long term”

You can beat airships deaths will just one of big accidents.

ourworldindata.org/what-was-the-death-toll-from-c…

I explicitly wrote “civil nuclear power”. I know there were big incidents, especially in early military nuclear sites. Windscale and Kyshtym are two of those.

So we agree, airships and nukes are both outmoded, old tech.

also, en.wikipedia.org/…/Fukushima_Daiichi_nuclear_disa…

I never agreed that its outmoded or old tech.

At Fukushima Daichii died one worker of radiation poisoning and one in a crane incident. The evacuation killed 51 more. Scientific consense is, that the loss of life and cumulative lifetime would habe been lower if there was no evacuation.

“No evacuation.” Have you ever actually talked to people?

You know that nuclear power plant up the road? They just had a big accident, we don’t know exactly what’s going on, and at least one person is already dead from radiation. But it’s fine, and you shouldn’t worry or leave the area.

There was a massive tsunami in the area killing almost 20k people, the power plant was not their first concern.

The guy died 4 years after the accident from lung cancer, not very common in nuclear power.