We are so f’en stupid. If you want reliable power with minimal environment impact then build modern SAFE nuclear energy plants! Duh.
It is possible to build safe nuc but the sheeple don’t understand it.
In one of the mini-nuc venture web pages they said one of the few smart things I have heard and that is that managing the probability of an event is impossible and so managing the consequence is the only path to safety. It is possible to manage the consequence of a failure of mistake that will eventually happen.
Commercialization of Thorium Salt reactors seems to the the obvious solution to clean power for centuries. The chicoms and the Indians recognize this, we did too in the 60s and 70s but there was no will to commercialize the chemical separation process for spent fuel. Carter did the rest and killed the pilot plant at Oak Ridge that the rest of the world uses as a design model.
We are crippled by our diversity and freedom. Yeah, that’s right, crippled because everyone, no matter how stupid or corrupt, gets a voice and we are smothered by indecision to take bold steps. How then do we do so many stupid things like giant wind turbines? Because the inmates are running the asylum?