[jjoonathan]

If we hadn't stopped building nuclear power in the 80s and had merely kept up the pace, our electric grid would be 100% decarbonized by now.

Instead, we do have nukes and don't have a carbon free grid. Ditto everyone else.

Naïve, immature, and short sighted, indeed.

[Gwypaas]

A negative learning curve coupled with Chernobyl doesn't create a very compelling business case right at the end of the 80s.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03014...