Yeah, this article reads like a propaganda piece. Littering in little bits such as "Surprising as it may seem, the United States still generates around 20 percent of its electricity from nuclear power plants." It's like the author WANTS you to think that nuke plants are worthless.
Also, yes nuclear does have its associated costs and risks, but they are capable of making shit tons of power, on the order of magnitude that solar and wind and hydro combined are not yet capable of doing.
Also, I grew up in Pennsylvania, and nobody thought any the worse of it that there is a nuclear power plant at three mile island.
And this is just my guess, but I would be a big big cost of nuke plants is the regulation and permit process. Not that this isn't necessary, but I would wager it's a reason the costs are so high still.
> Also, yes nuclear does have its associated costs and risks, but they are capable of making shit tons of power, on the order of magnitude that solar and wind and hydro combined are not yet capable of doing.
Hydro is great and proven technology where you have the geography for it. The Three Gorges Dam, for instance, provides up to a staggering 22.5 GW. The limitation is geography.
"Yeah, this article reads like a propaganda piece."
Reason is largely funded by oil interests like the Koch brothers (one of them is on their board). They've been running pro-oil for at least 6 years or so (when I saw the first of the articles). Reason is a non-profit so you can see their contributors, and it's not hard to find other publications calling them out for conflict-of-interest issues.
Also, yes nuclear does have its associated costs and risks, but they are capable of making shit tons of power, on the order of magnitude that solar and wind and hydro combined are not yet capable of doing.
Also, I grew up in Pennsylvania, and nobody thought any the worse of it that there is a nuclear power plant at three mile island.
And this is just my guess, but I would be a big big cost of nuke plants is the regulation and permit process. Not that this isn't necessary, but I would wager it's a reason the costs are so high still.