I never understand the liberals objections to nuclear power.
Nuclear power plants produce none of the greenhouse gases which liberals bitch about. And newer nuclear plants produce less nuclear waste than the older nuclear plants still in operation. This is an issue because we have not been allowed to build new nuclear plants in recent years which use the latest technology.
Meanwhile the population keeps growing, demand for power for all the latest gadgets keeps growing, the electric grid keeps aging, but liberals block many of the actions we could take to keep up with demand for electricity.
GE and Westinghouse killed the US nuclear industry. They lobbied themselves into an oligopoly of meltdown capable high-maintenance reactors, and licensed the technology to Toshiba so they could kill the Japanese and German nuclear industries when the inevitable happened. It didn’t help that the Peanut Farmer in Chief mandated that fuel rods that are still 95% fuel had to be stored until the end of civilization rather than being used.
It’s going to take a politician capable of calling out the morons in both government and industry to kick start the next generation of fission energy policy. So far there hasn’t been a peep from any of this year’s crop of candidates, so it’s probably gonna be at least another 8 years of imbecilic management into the ground before there is even a slight glimmer of hope for a sane nuclear renewal.