The Trump administration has secretly rewritten nuclear safety rules

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13. Integrating solar and wind power into a reliable electric grid is expensive.

Nations and states with aggressive renewable energy programs tend to have the most expensive electricity in the "developed" world and rarely reduce their greenhouse gas emissions to the extent it will matter in the long term; the exception being places with extensive hydroelectric resources which are environmentally destructive in their own way.

Disposing of nuclear waste is a solved problem. Disposing of fossil fuel waste is not.

It's always interesting to compare the carbon intensity of electric power generation in nuclear France to Germany or Denmark:

https://app.electricitymaps.com/map/zone/DE/12mo/monthly

Welcome to DU.

In my youth I was a hard-core anti-nuclear activist. Now I'm not.

Renewable energy cannot support earth's current population of 8 billion humans. We've worked ourselves into a corner. If we continue to burn fossil fuels then billions of people will suffer and die. If we don't have reliable large scale energy sources then billions of people will suffer and die.

Nuclear power is the only energy resource capable of displacing fossil fuels entirely. Quitting fossil fuels is something we must do.