nuclear waste issue has been mostly solved. just the narrative and lack of political & investment interest holding it back.
i'm just going by memory, but do look into it for yourself:
thorium reactors, molten salt reactors, small modular reactors... all that technology is largely ready to go. very safe, meltdown safeguards built-in. thorium & some uranium can be recycled back into more energy-generation up to a point where the resultant waste is miniscule & can be disposed of as bricks. radioactive sludge waste products not so relevant anymore.
This. Any serious energy engineer will tell you that the only current clean energy technology available to serve our massive power needs is nuclear. The safety issues have been drastically improved and are very manageable. Wind and solar have a horrible ROI, but are largely driven by $cience. Ramp up our domestic oil and gas industry to serve our needs in parallel with a massive 10 year deployment of nuclear. Global warming, I mean Climate change is a hoax, but that doesn’t mean we should not have a responsible, non-political long term energy strategy.
nuclear waste issue has been mostly solved. just the narrative and lack of political & investment interest holding it back.
i'm just going by memory, but do look into it for yourself:
thorium reactors, molten salt reactors, small modular reactors... all that technology is largely ready to go. very safe, meltdown safeguards built-in. thorium & some uranium can be recycled back into more energy-generation up to a point where the resultant waste is miniscule & can be disposed of as bricks. radioactive sludge waste products not so relevant anymore.
This. Any serious energy engineer will tell you that the only current clean energy technology available to serve our massive power needs is nuclear. The safety issues have been drastically improved and are very manageable. Wind and solar have a horrible ROI, but are largely driven by $cience. Ramp up our domestic oil and gas industry to serve our needs in parallel with a massive 10 year deployment of nuclear. Global warming, I mean Climate change is a hoax, but that doesn’t mean we should not have a responsible, non-political long term energy strategy.
LFTRs. Much MUCH SAFER than current nuke plants. And we have 300 + years of fuel for them in coal tailings.