Because it would only take about 200 nuclear reactors to achieve it. If we really pushed we could get it done in a decade. How long will it take with renewables? Who fucking knows? Judging from how Germany is doing a lot fucking longer. They wouldn't be able to keep pushing it as an issue. They don't want solutions, they want problems they can bitch about come election time.
10% of our installed energy capacity is nuclear. It provides 19% of all energy we use. We have just under 100 operating reactors. We would need about 500 total to provide all electrical power generation in the USA.
Why are they against it so much?
Because it would only take about 200 nuclear reactors to achieve it. If we really pushed we could get it done in a decade. How long will it take with renewables? Who fucking knows? Judging from how Germany is doing a lot fucking longer. They wouldn't be able to keep pushing it as an issue. They don't want solutions, they want problems they can bitch about come election time.
10% of our installed energy capacity is nuclear. It provides 19% of all energy we use. We have just under 100 operating reactors. We would need about 500 total to provide all electrical power generation in the USA.
It really depends on the size of the reactors you build. If you build the largest reactors you can it would take a lot less of them.