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by Gud 1023 days ago
Humans are guided by emotion.

Public opinion will swing back in favor of nuclear power as more and more people grow up without having known the disasters that were Three Mile Island and Chernobyl first hand.

Kids these days don't give a shit about Chernobyl - And Fukushima was already more than a decade ago. Most 30 somethings are most likely not even aware of the Harrisburg accident.

What they do know is that their apartments are smaller than their parents were when they were their age. They can't afford to drive cars like their parents did and they can barely afford to pay the electric bills in the winter.

At the same time they are well informed about the causes of climate change, an enormous release of green house gasses into the atmosphere, to power the economy. So what else is there to feed the economy with energy? Wind & Solar? Get real. The obvious solution is to run those electric generators using steam turbines fueled by uranium.