Nuclear's biggest downsides is the waste and threat of meltdown. Both these issues go away when we start using thorium reactors instead of uranium. Yes thorium technology isn't perfect and has a way to go. But it's a viable clean option and has more benefits vs other so called clean options.
With how we know society is run, you really want to avoid having a part of the "public" infrastructure built in such a way that it becomes dangerous with underutilization.
Humans are really really good at fucking things up. Success through failure is how humans work. Best design infrastructure to fail in non-devastating ways.
This is how modern nuclear plants are built, but they still have serious maintence issues that can be papered over to make for dangerous circumstances.
Nuclear's biggest downsides is the waste and threat of meltdown. Both these issues go away when we start using thorium reactors instead of uranium. Yes thorium technology isn't perfect and has a way to go. But it's a viable clean option and has more benefits vs other so called clean options.
With how we know society is run, you really want to avoid having a part of the "public" infrastructure built in such a way that it becomes dangerous with underutilization.
Humans are really really good at fucking things up. Success through failure is how humans work. Best design infrastructure to fail in non-devastating ways.
This is how modern nuclear plants are built, but they still have serious maintence issues that can be papered over to make for dangerous circumstances.