Statistically speaking, nuclear energy is relatively safe per kilowatt-hour. But it’s also the only energy source with a non-zero risk of catastrophic failure and waste that stays toxic for thousands of years.

Thanks. I’ll take wind and solar instead. Wake me up when all this is somehow cleaned up.

As of December 2024, there were over 315,000 bundles of spent nuclear fuel rods in the U.S., and over 3,800 dry storage casks in concrete vaults above ground, located at current and former power plants across the country.

Even reactors that have been decommissioned and demolished still have concrete vaults storing radioactive waste, which must be secured and maintained by the power company that owned the nuclear plant.

This article is such a piece of trash.

“We have this amazing new technology that we could use to fix all these problems but we don’t actually have it deployed because of government regulation stopping the deployment. I guess it’s a waste of time and development and we should abandoned it because we don’t have any deployed commercially. Real shame though because all of the ones we have in labs for the last 30 years have worked pretty much flawlessly…”

Here’s a fucking idea. Maybe we should deploy some of these small modular reactors instead of red taping every municipality that tries to use them.

I’m so tired of decades of nuclear misinformation and nimbys

Big coal/oil - Don’t produce nuclear energy, it is unproven and unreliable. Small reactors have been heralded as the solution to big nuclear. We can’t have that!