[philipkglass]

The process of building nuclear is extremely clean compared to building wind turbines and solar panels which devastate the environment due to the rare metals needed and production process.

Photovoltaic cells can be made with thin film technologies based on rare elements such as gallium, indium, and tellurium. The vast majority are made with crystalline silicon wafers.

Wind turbines can be made with permanent magnet generators incorporating neodymium and dysprosium or terbium. The majority are made with electromagnets, which require no rare metals.

Nuclear, wind, and PV all have drastically lower full-lifecycle GHG emissions and deathprints per terawatt hour than any combustion-based electricity sources. It grieves me that so much "pro-nuclear" advocacy is just renewables-bashing -- and that so much "pro-renewable" advocacy is just nuclear-bashing. (Yes, I agree that nuclear really is safer and much cleaner than fossils.)