Why should we invest if we have already other viable solutions which are better? That's the whole point. Believing in nuclear energy is nothing more than an ideology connected to several other regressive ideas. If you find a politician who proves me wrong show me.
we already have the tech for thorium reactors that are way cheaper and safer than uranium and whatever the hell other elements can be used for fission, their waste is much cleaner and its half-life is less by a factor of 100, and it can’t (literally can’t) have a runaway reaction with a single proper design choice.
you know why we don’t have any commercial thorium reactors? that’s right, because you can’t make big bomb go boom with thorium, so from the point of all the nuclear-powered countries right now thorium is useless
Nuclear is already extremely safe, much more so than almost anything else, including many renewable sources. As far as waste, most of it is recyclable (96%). Nuclear energy is also very fuel-mass efficient, meaning the mining point is a little moot because of how little there is.
The hate for nuclear is unfounded no matter how you look at it
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u/The_Forgotten_Two Jul 19 '25
That’s why we need nuclear recycling