Debating on having a daily reminder about how the US currently only gets 20% of its energy from nuclear reactors and how that's a bad thing.
Or the fact that modern pebble bed reactors leave no chance of a meltdown.
Or the fact that nuclear waste can be recycled into more fuel.
Or the fact that developing nuclear fusion power would net us truly limitless power because nothing is lost like with fission.
Or basically that the US should really be putting more into nuclear than anything else.
Nuclear power is now safer than any other non renewable (because nuclear isn't completely renewable without fusion) energy source. There have been fewer deaths in the last forty years due to nuclear power than in the last one for fossil fuels.
So yeah. Support nuclear power. If we can develop the tech to get fusion power then imagine the world. Limitless power at a lower cost using a smaller space than a coal or ff power plant. Ofc even using fission only its still not space intensive.
Like, one reactor in California takes up 60 acres and provides 9% of all of California's power needs. From a single reactor. That's 279,000 people from 60 acres without even an eighth of the pollution. And modern reactors allow us to have a zero carbon footprint.