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It's a bit late to start the experiment if we need 20,000 working models in the next 6m to avoid climate change. That's the issue with nuclear: to late.

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Too late is much better than "cannot work at all" which is what solar and wind give us. What makes you think solar and wind are up to the task right now? They cannot possibly power our collective needs, and even if they could, we have nowhere to store the energy at night or on cloudy/calm days.

Energy storage is not a solved problem, and it will not be a solved problem for the next decade. In the meantime, we need to build nuclear reactors now.

You realise you're planning for peak load grid management for 50 years after the collapse of society right? No one will need to power their ipad when food shortages have killed 50% of the population and the rest are fighting a war over access to water...

Yes, and don't forget the radioactive hybrid terror pigs:

https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/01/radioactive_hybrid_te...

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