In France, 40% of electric power today is nuclear. France starting relying heavily on nuclear in the 1980s. This is what happened to per-capita CO2 emissions:pic.twitter.com/9P0NVaJPHY
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One of the greatest tragedies of the 21st century is the stagnation and slow decline of nuclear power in most countries. It could have considerably reduced CO2 emissions.
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Germany, where the anti-nuclear movement is prominent, and where electricity is only ~10% nuclear, has per-capita CO2 emissions that are about 2x that of France.
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China increase his nuclear power..
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How can we reverse that? So self- defeating.
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Until a reactor blows up...
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That's not very probable. Chernobyl had criminal levels of mismanagement both from the operators and from the state knowing the risk but actively hiding the information from the plant operators
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One of the problems as Freeman Dyson has pointed out is that nuclear power was never allowed to benefit from a healthy environment of trial-and-error, of fun and play, the way tech startups do for instance. That's changing now but it's a bit late.https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/the-curious-wavefunction/the-future-of-nuclear-power-let-a-thousand-flowers-bloom/ …
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I think it's harder to trust nuclear energy in countries with weaker/more corrupt institutions. Probably ok in Western Europe, but harder to trust that it won't be mismanaged in other parts of the world :/
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There are plenty of huge countries which already have large nuclear weapons stockpiles and yet still do not heavily deploy nuclear electrical power plants: Russia, China, and India being the most obvious examples. There is little risk of mismanagement-- they have bombs anyway.
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