For years now, nuclear fusion has been 50 years away from being a viable power source. But recent fundamental advances in engineering reactors mean that we are now only 30 years away. Some of the younger people reading this tweet may even live to see the number brought down to 20
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It's time we learned to love atomic energy again. Burying a little radioactive waste deep under Reno is much better than having to breathe wildfire smoke every summer on gondola rides through lower Manhattan.pic.twitter.com/hCoKJTl8lA
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It's scandalous that for all the talk of a climate crisis, the United States hasn't broken ground on a new nuclear power plant since the 1970's. The closest we've come is expanding an existing facility in Georgia.
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here’s your “short term” fission buildout. have a good readhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vogtle_Electric_Generating_Plant …
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Any serious effort on climate change should entirely ignore fission. It's not remotely cost competitive with solar or wind now, even if you add the cost of battery storage. Plus, the safety concerns from both meltdowns and waste. Just wasteful boon doggies at this point.
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What safety concerns? Japan, Germany, and France all do fine, as do our aging plants. Solar is great if you can show how to increase production of solar panels by orders of magnitude, and how to store all that power.
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