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by jddw 4007 days ago
So distribute fission and fusion, overcomes much of that. And distributed solar and wind needs backup which is usually fairly centralized. Unless you want to spend 3-5 times as much for your energy to buy batteries.
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Fusion needs to be distributed well away from population centres. Until we've had enough contained failures of the "intrinsically safe" reactors to be convinced that it's actually true.