This is why we need nuclear.
Not merely nuclear, but nuclear energy production based on Thorium-fueled Molten Salt plants, virtually giving up altogether on Uranium-fueled Light Water plants.
There is approximately four times as much Thorium in the earth’s crust as Uranium, and extraction is both easier, and preparation for use less expensive. Thorium, in and of itself, cannot become fissile, making it useless for the production of nuclear weapons (and the reason it was never adopted), but with the addition of some “seed” fissile elements, from “spent” Uranium fuel rods, a sustained but controllable chain reaction may be initiated, providing a long-lasting power source for the generation of electricity and means of producing potable water from sea water and otherwise polluted water.
It is impossible for a Thorium-fueled Molten Salt plant to go into a China Syndrome kind of meltdown, and the eventual production of “spent” atomic waste is much lower than with a Uranium-fueled Light Water plant.
Almost ever objection to using atomic energy to power our national economy is overcome by using the Thorium-fueled Molten Salt reactors, which in addition to being less dangerous, may be scaled in size and put in closer to point of consumption of power, thus eliminating the vulnerability of widespread grids bringing power from hundreds of miles away.
This is why we need nuclear.
1. The technology really has gotten incredibly much better since the 3-mile-island days
2. Local nuclear accidents (like in Japan) do NOT have the capability to end the world unlike “climate change” which according-to-them DOES.
3. It definitely has a low “carbon footprint”.
So if you REALLY believe in Climate Apocalypse, you would support nuclear power TODAY!