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Men who support nuclear power must support big government, given the subsidies and other exemptions required to encourage that industry.

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I’m disquieted with the vaccine crowd getting behind nuclear power.

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Another industry that happens to need immunity to being sued. Insurers won't touch it.

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Just wait till they get behind genetic engineering.

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It will be way worse than that. Imagine what youngsters who craft their own genders after getting advice from trannies on Tik Tok are going to ask the staff at the fertility clinics for. We are a long way from peak insanity.

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You sound like a chick pretending to be a libertarian. What energy sector ISN'T heavily regulated / subsidized by the modern state?

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They all are, but nuclear produces about 10% of the world's electricity. Electricity accounts for about 10% of fossil fuel energy use. 10 of 10 is 1%.

Nuclear was invented to produce material for weapons. Fusion research exists to test those weapons in the face of the test ban treaty.

Correction: nuclear is 4% of primary energy production; transportation is 10% of fossil fuel use.

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not sure I'm following this discussion, but it may be relevant that acc. to Bloomberg, the US will join several other nations at COP28 in proposing a global tripling of nuclear power by 2050. My take is even the Greens are starting to realize that wind and solar don't cut it.

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I believe it's likely that nuclear will be built up, especially in developing countries. But it isn't the source of limitless energy that proponents make it out to be.

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