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No need to green-wash what is already green. You could label it "hippie propaganda" or something the like though.

I think TFA just reiterates that we can no longer build complex stuff within a reasonable timeframe and budget. Nuclear reactors just happen to be super complex. Nothing nefarious going on.

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Yeah I mean Solar itself seems to be generally considered low tech by now.

Also the failure modes of Nuclear involve some sort of "real time response". In a classic reactor when the power goes off unexpectedly, one needs to make sure that it receives cooling to not risk a meltdown.

The only open problem is storage but I guess there are also reasonably low complexity options like hydrogen or water pumps.

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