they're right. nuclear power is a short term solution with very very very long term consequences and that makes it foolish. the best case rewards are far and away not worth the worst case consequences. no failsafes or storage systems can ever be perfect. it's a lot better than it used to be and waste isn't quite the problem it was, especially in the case of newer molten salt reactors, and we eventually could get to the point where it is viable but so long as there is potential for poisoning large swathes of land for millennia which can in turn contaminate water it's just not worth it when all you're getting out of it is electricity which can be generated in myriad other ways.
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