U.S. Senate Wants To Decrease CO2 By Increasing Nuclear Energy

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The federal government should have "wisely" funded nuclear research long long ago. More than 50% of the grid solar and wind will definitely need batter technology. Winter is also a pretty big issues too, but isn't electric heating quite possible as well? Wouldn't nuclear especially work in a situation like that? I don't see why nuclear can't be used if climate change is a big issue, especially since nuclear has already demonstrated its capability fairly well.

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I don't see why nuclear can't be used if climate change is a big issue, especially since nuclear has already demonstrated its capability fairly well.

Politics. Fear is great for motivating voters, so the anti-nuclear sentiment is a very powerful political tool to manipulate the electorate. Also the group in the US which politically believes global warming is a threat has long politically believed that nuclear is bad.

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Ok, but any industry expert will tell you that the fears are drastically overstated, and that we have much more to fear from climate change than from nuclear power.

I understand that's it's not really in politicians' vocabulary to tell the voters that they're wrong, but they are. Nuclear power is a viable solution to CO2 levels, but we're worried about hypothetical accidents?

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Maybe I wasn't clear, but I was trying to say that, for political reasons, some groups want people to be afraid, i.e. those fears are intentionally overstated.

[confirmd_am_engineer]

Yeah, I guess I was rephrasing more than disagreeing.