USA needs nuclear to achieve net zero, says US Energy Secretary Granholm

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36. The capital cost of nuclear plants represent a gift to future generations.

It is now possible to design nuclear plants to run between 6 to 8 decades. The benefits would accrue to future generations but since we hold future generations in barely disguised contempt, we are unwilling to pay because we think only of ourselves.

If we were serious about addressing climate change - and there's no evidence we are - standardization would fall out of the massive scale at which nuclear plants would need to be built. But they are not, and should not, be "one size fits all."