Our reliance on fossil fuel dates back to the Carter days, when the NRC, under his instruction, made development of nuclear power plants exceedingly difficult and costly, essentially shutting down our nuclear energy program.
Due to excessive regulation existing U.S. nuclear plants are patched and cobbled for relicensing rather than building new, safer and more efficient plants.
when the NRC, under his instruction, made development of nuclear power plants exceedingly difficult and costly,
***Uhh, that was due to 3 Mile Island, which is STILL not cleaned up enough to walk your dog through it. Since then, fission can brag about 2 more accidents that will take 10,000 years to clean: Fukushima and Hiroshima.
That, combined with no real place to store nuke waste for 100,000 years and it’s NO Thanks. Once you work in the cost of cleanup and storage of waste, fission power is extremely expensive.
Instead of trying to keep atoms apart that wanna go together, it will be far safer trying to push atoms together that wanna repel. When the SHTF, the atoms repel and the reaction simply stops.
At least we haven’t had a Chernobyl.