why we don’t rely on nuclear power plants more, especially these days

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why we don’t rely on nuclear power plants more, especially these days

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In short, money and politics. The green lobby around the world was basically founded on anti-nuclear sentiment because they couldn’t (and still can’t) separate nuclear weapons with nuclear power in their minds.

Nuclear got an undeserved bad reputation that made it politically unpopular to the point that people would rather have a coal plant (that emits more radiation into the environment than nuclear plants) because of entirely baseless fears.

Nuclear plants are very expensive at the beginning and end of their life cycles, but last a lot longer than other plants. This means you need to spend a ton of money before you make any money so it’s unattractive to private investors and governments alike.