The French built 1960's style reactors and have a perfect safety record, 85% of electricity comes from Nuclear.
With i) modern designs and ii) re-investment in the tech, which hasn't seen advancement in 20 years, we'd solve the problem quickly.
Fukishima is avoidable, and Chenobyl ... was insanity, not even really a 'nuclear accident' (they were running reactors out in the open, without any containment or safety measures - like making sarin gas on a campfire).
Obviously it comes along with other complexities and challenges, but most of them - even long term storage of used fuel - can be addressed.
There's enough known Uranium deposits to power us for the next few hundred years - and that's even when we have not been looking for more deposits for 40 years.
Even without any 'new ideas' - we could be CO2 free within 10 years. The entire world.
We could even build CO2 'scrubbers' to pull CO2 out of the air.
Nuclear reactors are not actually as complicated as they seem, they are actually quite basic.
We have the solution in front of its, it just takes the political will, and intelligent information campaigns.
The French built 1960's style reactors and have a perfect safety record, 85% of electricity comes from Nuclear.
With i) modern designs and ii) re-investment in the tech, which hasn't seen advancement in 20 years, we'd solve the problem quickly.
Fukishima is avoidable, and Chenobyl ... was insanity, not even really a 'nuclear accident' (they were running reactors out in the open, without any containment or safety measures - like making sarin gas on a campfire).
Obviously it comes along with other complexities and challenges, but most of them - even long term storage of used fuel - can be addressed.
There's enough known Uranium deposits to power us for the next few hundred years - and that's even when we have not been looking for more deposits for 40 years.
Even without any 'new ideas' - we could be CO2 free within 10 years. The entire world.
We could even build CO2 'scrubbers' to pull CO2 out of the air.
Nuclear reactors are not actually as complicated as they seem, they are actually quite basic.
We have the solution in front of its, it just takes the political will, and intelligent information campaigns.