There are few technologies I can think of with cheerleaders so irrationally exuberant as fans of nuclear power. Sorry to harp on this again, but I feel like fans of nuclear power are some of the simultaneously most vocal and most misinformed people on the Internet.
Nuclear power has delivered practically nothing in terms of new capacity this century. Electricity demand doubled globally and nuclear power capacity increases are effectively rounding error. The vast majority of that new generation capacity came from renewables.
Nuclear power fans act like conspiracy theorists: the reason capacity hasn’t increased is because there’s technology has been unfairly maligned by the ignorant, who are irrationally afraid. Of course the complete opposite is happening and we’re in the most pro-nuclear climate since before Three Mile Island.
And yet new nuclear power has not magically materialized. Every project outside China is a decade late, tens of billions overbudget, and adds a couple GW
Tony “Abolish ICE” Arcieri🌹🦀
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