Go fix the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station if you think this is a great idea. It is currently shutdown because the replacement heat exchangers kept rupturing and releasing radioactive steam. The economic analysis decided the site was beyond economic repair i.e. it will cost far more money to repair and run than revenue derived from generated power. The ratepayers and stockholders are left holding the bag to pay for the defective heat exchanger.
“Go fix the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station if you think this [nuclear] is a great idea”
That’s one reactor. According to Wikipedia we have 96 of them here in America.
And watch out! From Wikipedia:
On 23 August 2020, Forbes reported, that “[the 2020 Democratic Party platform] marks the first time since 1972 that the Democratic Party has said anything positive in its platform about nuclear energy”