...that other people should live next to power plants to make electricity for you.
Why, exactly, are you special?
It's fine to make a statement that we can do something, but if we don't do it, then it's called speculation.
I agree that nuclear energy saves lives and that it is idiotic and, in fact, dangerous to not build nuclear plants.
However, this is not the 1960's or even the 1980s, and we are dominated by NIMBY thinking, which I guess you endorse.
The United States built about 110 nuclear plants, but hasn't brought a brand new one on line since the 1980's. We lack infrastructure, and we lack the will to build a plant. If one looks around, one can see that the majority of people on this planet favor tearing the shit out pristine wilderness to put through roads to service wind turbines that will be landfill in 20 years.
The Chinese built 50 plants in the last 20 years, more or less. This means that in the last 20 years they have demonstrated experience at building and operating plants. They are training nuclear plant operators while ours (except for some guys leaving the Navy) are retiring, many are losing their jobs when plants shut. There is no rational reason to assume that they can't do it, because they are doing it, and doing it well. Given the use of coal in China, they are saving lives.
The United States is committed to dangerous natural gas. We are tearing up the bedrock directly beneath our continent to get to the last of it, this while muttering nonsense about the lipstick on the gas pig, solar and wind.
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