atomicker on Nostr: Thank you for the detailed response. I am always interested in effective ways of ...

Thank you for the detailed response. I am always interested in effective ways of tackling our problems and moving forward; if the data indicated nuclear was the way to go, well, then nuclear would be the way to go.

However, the trend has obviously been against nuclear for years now, driven by increasing costs, slow construction, complex long-term maintenance, increasing unreliability (see below), environmental damages, the huge lead in adoption alternatives have already claimed, public resistance, etc.

Clearly, the nuclear industry is relying policiticians to subsidize them as they do fossil fuels, and impose reactors on us over the less expensive alternatives. Even if they succeed in Canada, this won't affect the trajectory of the market in China, Africa, Europe, etc. Nuclear will never achieve the economies of scale required to make it genuinely useful in bringing down emissions; it has already lost too much ground, and loses more every year.

https://www.euronews.com/2025/07/02/france-and-switzerland-shut-down-nuclear-power-plants-amid-scorching-heatwave