Interesting convo about nuclear, which is without question the most safe form base load electrical generation on the planet, even including Fukushima (whose release actual impact on sea life was negligible and barely above background levels) and Chernobyl, which were designs from the late 1940s installed in the 1960s. 4th gen designs are walk away safe. There is no logical safety argument against nuclear power. Only cost and timeframe arguments, much of that tied to the absolutely wild levels of regulatory blockage of this tech, again tied to outdated paranoia.
It's coming back because we need the power whether you like it or not. Do some, scratch that, lots of reading. BTW hundreds of small modular reactors have been floating around in the ocean for decades in the form of naval submarines. We need to get past the Day After and China Syndrome paranoia of the 1980s. Nuclear is the only carbon free base load power solution that we have right now. We should have been building them for the last three decades and now we are no longer leading in the field. China is. Grid scale renewable battery storage is larger technical and economic challenge than 4th gen nuclear. Every time I hear about "add a battery" to an solar farm, I laugh. It doesn't exist and the tech won't be economical, or even environmentally responsible for at least a few decades if ever.
