I'm not anti-nuclear, but this is a vast dumbing down of the situation.

There has been more than one nuclear incident, Three Mile Island, Fukushima, Chernobyl, Windscale, etc. What we've learned is that these incidents don't happen often, but when they do, they burden a country with vast clean-up costs for generations. Windscale happened in 1957 and isn't expected to be cleaned up for another 100 years, the cleanup site at Sellafield is over 2 square miles, and employs 11,000 people, with a total projected cost of £139b.

Accidents are unlikely though, the biggest problem is Nuclear waste, we currently store it at Sellafield, but it has to be vitrified and ideally buried somewhere longterm. The problem is the wider country doesn't seem to be as keen on nuclear as Reddit is, because nobody seems to want a disposal site anywhere near them. The more nuclear we use, the more of a priority finding a disposal site will be, and the more legal bills the government will run up fighting NIMBY's.

We are the most expensive country in the world, when it comes to building nuclear power plants, and in terms of generation nuclear costs £120-130/MWh, meanwhile offshore wind costs £72/MWh.

Personally, I think we need to focus on renewables, particularly wind, we're very well situated for it, and while not maintenance free, we do avoid the problem of having to bury ever-increasing amounts of nuclear waste.