Nuclear was the best solution in the 70s. If we had built all the plants then, we wouldn't be in our current mess.

Today, the economics don't make any sense. Energy from a fission plant is much more expensive than from renewables+storage, and nuclear plants that are operating often have to be curtailed in summer (when energy need is high) due to a lack of cooling water. The timeline to build a new plant is decades - far too late to make a difference if we started now.

There would also have to be global trust for literally every country to be operating multiple nuclear reactors, which does not exist today and likely never will. The odds that the US simply allows most of Sub-Saharan Africa - currently ruled by a set of characters ranging from (in the State Department's view) dictators to Jihadists - operational control over advanced nuclear technology do not look very strong.

I'm typically pro-nuclear, but there are legitimate problems with it:

1. Waste disposal - We STILL haven't made a good solution for storing nuclear waste in most places.
2. Cost overruns - Nuclear projects almost always run over their budgets by 10-30% or more.

That said, I'm of the opinion that it should be a part of our energy mix, given it's reliability in producing consistent power. I think we should prioritize wind and solar, but for our overnight and non-windy days, nuclear is a great way to fill the gap.

• Nuclear costs too much. Much much more than anything else.

• It isn't clean. Since when is radioactive disposal considered a clean activity?

That's two reasons. The first one is the real reason.

• What exactly do you mean by the use of the word efficient?

Really? I think its pretty simple.

It still requires mining. It requires a plan to dispose of waste (which only ONE country actually has). There are over 600 mines that are in need of remediation around the world that haven't been accomplished, with at least a hundred waste sites that are still not remediated.

Which leads to the single best reason to avoid nuclear: Nobody is responsible enough yet. In most countries that can afford to do it, it will go to the lowest bidder to operate and run and we can see that governments and wars come and go. Humans are shit at being responsible, particularly when money or power is dangled in front of them.

Solar is the cheapest and cleanest form of energy with the most recyclable materials.

I’ve never understood the anti-nuclear movement. Let’s give up one of the cleanest and most efficient ways to generate energy because reasons?

I don't support fission because I don't like paying comically high amounts of electricity. I support power options because they're the most practical, not because I get some weird retro-futuristic "our friend the atom" sexual kick out of it.

I think nuclear is fine but no interference of government. No promised price. No insurance no plant. Those 2 points destroy nuclear completely.

And by the way if you give out solar panels for free by the government solar would be even cheaper!