05-05-2023, 03:39 AM
I'm hopeful that the new generation of modular plants and using different fission elements / isotopes can go a long ways towards making nuclear acceptable and mainstream as an alternate baseline source.
The thing about nuclear power that's so scary is the magnitude of danger from out of control reactions... and that the dangerous fallout is invisible to the eye... you just can't see when there's dangerous levels of radiation. We're going to have to get over that, though, and mainline as much of the stuff as we can as quickly as we safely can to get over the energy crunch in the next few dozen years or so.
The thing about nuclear power that's so scary is the magnitude of danger from out of control reactions... and that the dangerous fallout is invisible to the eye... you just can't see when there's dangerous levels of radiation. We're going to have to get over that, though, and mainline as much of the stuff as we can as quickly as we safely can to get over the energy crunch in the next few dozen years or so.