Have you ever wonded what happens to a nuclear powered ship or submarine at end of life? There's been lots, especially in the militaries of nuclear powers. Try and find out what happened to any of them. Until you know that, isn't it iimpossible really to form an opinion, of whether these things are good or bad?
Add to this, that it is routine now to be able to supply any place, even in the arctic, with permanent, local 24/7 solar power for their own use, at a fraction of the cost and development time of a nuclear plant, nobody selling any energy to them after that.
Why do you think that never happens? Its precisely because nobody can sell them energy after that. Same reason as our governments and utlities energy companies won't do it for us at home either.
But now they have a problem, that lots of folk are finding ways to do it themselves / ourselves anyway. So utilities energy supply is on the decline, despite still rising populations.
But their shareholder base remains the same, shareholder demands and expectations never decrease, especially with iniflation.
So they are going bust, despite price gouging the remaining consumers, to try to make up for those they've lost to solar.
Personally I dont think Nuclear of any form is a good idea at all.
In essence, most of the energy yielded from any nuclear material is thrown out to the planet as heat, before yield. This actually dwarfs the energy yielded. We might be able to say it is carbon free, if we can also guarantee that the energy that fuelled all the research done in history on it was also carbon free, and all of the work done by everyone working on it, and even the materials manufacture of it, but of course we can't.
It not only heats the planet directly, before any money is made from it, but it also generates carbon, actually massive carbon, because the energy that went into making all the materials came from most likely fossil fuels.
The hard fact is, wherever profit is made, there has to be energy extraction, and this has to come with more being lost to heat than is yielded, because the energy in profit itself, has to have come extracted from the planet, in some way or another.
Solar bucks all of that, by being the only form of energy use which results in temperature decrease, especially if the installation dumps its excess into hydrogen for backup.
In that case it becomes an alternative fuel supplier, a rival to the fossil fuels industry, because hydrogen can easily keep aerospace airborne, if there is enough of it being produced to replace fossil fuels in the airborne application.
See where this goes?
The fly in the ointment, stopping it all from happening as yet is money, it is issued only as debt, which is a requisition to do work, actually the work of extraction.
But if there is no more extraction going on, what does that money really represent, what actual energy content is in the money?
The answer is none. This is the real physical reason we seen inflation, loss of industry / jobs, loss of quality, actually loss of high technology like aerospace, we lost reusable shuttles, supersonic commercial flight, and are now struggling to keep the doors on commercial aircraft still flying.
Profit has eaten out the insides of every business, most businesses now are struggling to stay financially "Solvent", even restaurants etc, food supply chains, farming, they are all breaking down.
Its because the actual economic product which is coming in to replace all business for profit, was sourced from energy received as donation from the sun.
The only way to reflect that, is to start issuing the money outstanding that should have been issued all along, indexed with solar energy reception.
It works out at hundreds of billions in every developed country, and would get us well on the way to becoming fully domestic and community energy independent.
There isn't any room in that new world for bullshit jobs (Graeber), or bullshit industry (Graeber extended), but it still needs money, to convey the energy donated through all of humanity, further donating it in markets towards causes they/we wish to vote for.
It just needs to be issued for free, indexed to solar energy received, like plants do with nutrients, when they first form leaves.
Nuclear looks pretty poor when we realise all that, does it not?
