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5. MIT: "The Future of Nuclear Power"
Thu Feb 6, 2014, 07:28 AM
Feb 2014

In 2003, MIT listed the four major problems with nuclear energy and what to do about them:

"To preserve the nuclear option for the future requires overcoming the four
challenges described above—costs, safety, proliferation, and wastes. These
challenges will escalate if a significant number of new nuclear generating
plants are built in a growing number of countries. The effort to overcome
these challenges, however, is justified only if nuclear power can potentially
contribute significantly to reducing global warming, which entails major
expansion of nuclear power."

- MIT, The Future of Nuclear Power
http://web.mit.edu/nuclearpower/


Read that carefully.

Ten years later we know that these problems were severely underestimated and aren't close to being overcome.

And since we know there won't be a major expansion of nuclear power, the effort to overcome them isn't justified.

There is no justification to preserve the nuclear option for the future.

None.

(Note: This is about fission, not fusion.)

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