[spenrose]

I linked to a write-up of peer-reviewed research which focused on the "if" and demonstrated that the odds are daunting. That ... is an answer. I linked to a second article showing that renewables are reducing emissions from natural gas today. "If the environment was prioritized enough" then either would work. Renewables are making headway given the current political economy of energy, nuclear is not. And to repeat: I wish it were!

[tjoff]

Odds are daunting that it is a green and safe source of energy?

[spenrose]

That new nuclear will be deployed at scale in the next two decades that wind and solar are being deployed at now.