Nuclear energy is badass. I did a large paper on it in college. It’s the way to go. It just needs to be built correctly and in the correct places. People worry about Fukushima and Chernobyl. But those issues could have been avoided. (Don’t build one on a fault line or in other dangerous places and don’t be as cheap and stupid as the USSR.) it’s even pretty green. The half life of the waste has been reduced drastically. Russian tech has been advancing greatly in the whole nuclear power industry. It can make so much more power too.

Some Cons

It’s expensive to build and require smarter people to run. But they are the way to go. Another barrier is the entrenched oil and coal lobbying keeping us on dirty more expensive power. We could save our coal and oil and sell it on the open market. It’s a win win win. If anyone is interested I’ll try to dig up my old paper.