[deburo]

The promise of new nuclear plant designs is to cut down construction cost. This is pretty exciting. I think nuclear power will make a come back in popularity in the next few years, as more and more news and promises surface about those designs.

Here's an article shared by Bill Gates last week: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/06/opinion/sunday/climate-ch...

[freeflight]

Cut down construction costs still won't solve fundamental problems like final waste storage [0] or a lack of proper epidemiological studies into the effects on people, particularly children and pregnant women [1], living near those plants.

Imho the way we've handled nuclear fission so far is far too reminiscent to other environmental disasters that took humanity decades to even recognize and finally act on, even when we had plenty of warnings from the very beginning [2].

[0] http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2018/looking-trash-can-nuc...

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2757021/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetraethyllead#Controversy_and...