They are planning it. Planning. I did NOT say there was no development and test bed development.
And planning without implementation is, in the end, no implementation.
I am fully on board with nuclear power. I have training with isotopes and nuclear processes. I am not “an expert”, but I have enough knowledge to understand the technology, speak conversantly on it, and make appropriate risk anylyses. This is what we might call “rational discourse”.
But the people opposing these technologies are not interested in “rational discourse”. They are interested in Gaia and unicorn farts like solar and wind.
I think the building of prototypes is one thing, clearing the environmentalist hurdles (and new hurdles will be created apace to further block development, not only with plants, with mining permits, you name it.
Unfortunately true...but circumstances are proving that solar and wind are not enough, as proven repeatedly where I live (San Antonio). I lived through the "big freeze" a couple of years ago when grid here basically failed. Thank God we had natural gas and a gas stove. We lit the stove with matches and put pots of water to boil, so we were able to cook, wash, and stay somewhat warm...at least in the kitchen.
The saner ones in the "environmental movement" are beginning to acknowledge that some level of nuclear baseline energy is necessary.