oil is heading that way too

People not happy with regulation around it? Or that people can get it cheaper overseas?

Like what caused the US coal mines to shut down in the first place?

@CreativeRealms if they were more commercially viable we would be building them

And well, if they had some low risk areas to construct them

They are powerful yes, but one mistake can screw over alot

When oil prices slowly increase they would be more appealing to investors

Not that we dont trust Nuclear, more like we dont trust people to keep it in check

Not to mention that it can be used for war as well

Nuclear reactors in the US are very safe

wind and solar are easy to setup, easy to invest in. nuke power is always on the table too

Yeah they are really safe.

That's part of their cost though

expensive to run

Less pollution though.

@ping Nuclear reactors anywhere are very safe. The only major nuclear accidents in history were flukes or design flaws that have been fixed in newer plants

That said, the second biggest disaster since cernnobyle resulted in no deaths related to radiation. At least that was the numbers of few months ago

You could argue birth defects

Some will argue that the damage to the environment is more important

pfft the environment.

It probably killed people, just not from radiation poisoning

THing is, they can claim everything on radiation as well

like random people getting birth defects. How do we know if its related to radiation

@ping The problem that caused Chernobyl was a design flaw that had already been fixed in reactors 10 years younger than it, and Fukushima's problem was the backup generators being flooded because the tsunami was larger than any recorded

But dont get me wrong, Id love nuclear power.

I'm relatively sure the problem that caused Three Mile Island was also a design flaw that had already been fixed in newer plants

And even then it still worked pretty well

But I gotta respect the wishes of those who dont

Even i am an outlier when it comes to how I think here

Solar/wind is still too new. Needs to be improved more.

People are afraid of nuclear power because they think nukes and hear scary works like radiation

Yeah.

Did you even watch the transformers movie??? It blew up because they were trying to harness power from an alien reactor core

kek

Oh shit I never heard about that, ping! 😮

Then there is the problem of waste which the US really hasn't fixed yet

DHMO lol

@Grenade123 > People are afraid of nuclear power because the EPA and the media tells them to be afraid of it despite not knowing shit about it.

@CreativeRealms both are mature tbh

Pretty mucb

Still, can we trust the media when they do a 180 on it?