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by ajsnigrutin 1203 days ago
> would be to build nuclear power plants.

...which also give power at night, which is a must!

...but: https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/002/500/574/f4e...

edit: I know that this is some political compass meme, but i know way too many real-life people who are into green everything, but are afraid of nuclear.

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It's a little unfair categorization of why people are averse to nuclear energy. It really doesn't help that both government controlled and commercial operations have traded-off costs for safety leading to high-profile incidents. Nuclear energy has robust and passive fail-safes, like MSR designs, but it has a branding issue, and that's thanks to misincentives for cost-cutting on critical systems. New nuclear has to provide better assurances to the public, and how it does that, I'm not so sure.