Mastodawn

As someone with as many solar panels on the roof as we could fit, there is no fast path to decarbonisation that does not involve nuclear power.
First issue is generation, we currently do not generate enough clean energy to cover usage & no one is interested in reducing usage.
The only reasonable storage method for energy is battery. Lithium batteries are environmentally damaging in manufacture. Although there are alternatives in development, none so far have been proven at scale.
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Overclocked Andy 2d ago

Nuclear waste is not “an unmanageable problem”. It’s solved long ago. Glassified waste is practically inert & all the waste ever produced globally would fit on a football field.
The problem with nuclear waste is the unfounded fear which makes it hard to deal with the waste.
Nuclear power plants take so long to build because of the extra safety precautions taken because of the unnecessary fear about nuclear power.
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Overclocked Andy 2d ago

Even including both Chernobyl & Fukushima deaths associated with nuclear power are incredibly low. Lower than most other industries. Even civilian deaths attributed to nuclear are incredibly low.
The fear of nuclear has caused more damage.
The abortion rate following the Chernobyl incident because of fear of health impact is orders of magnitude greater that the number of projected deaths. What mental harm did that do? The projected deaths have been vastly overestimated.
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Overclocked Andy 2d ago

There is a lot more to go into than I can manage here.
Kyle Hill’s YouTube has a lot of great information that is factual not alarmist BS.
I would recommend the one about Linear No Threshold as a starting point as this has caused so many problems.
And yes I would love next to a nuclear waste storage facility, that’s how safe I consider it.
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Overclocked Andy 2d ago

p.s.
Nuclear power plants do not use the same fissile material as nuclear weapons for reasons I would hope were obvious but apparently are not.
With nuclear power you want easily controlled fission.
Also fusion is not going to be an option quick enough to save us from the worst problems of climate change so I’ll save you the “whatabout” with that one.