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no need to reinvent the wheel
Nuclear energy is a joke. It is too dangerous, dirty and costly. And when things go bad, there isn't enough money in the world to clean the mess up. So don't give me any crap about how cheap you might think it is. There is already an alternative to any form of energy production that is so effective that you could almost call it perpetual motion. Photovoltaic solar panels.
They produce far more power than it took to create them. That is, from mining the materials they are made out of onwards. They can also produce far more power than the U.S. could ever possibly need. (More than the world could possibly ever need) But it has one major drawback. It is FREE! How do you make money from that. But unfortunately, our country is run by the corrupt lackeys of evil corporations. Such as oil, gas and car companies. And they sure as hell can make money as things now stand.
There is only one problem with solar panels. One that our government isn't the least bit interested in tackling. Infrastructure. Because there is no profit in doing so. When you have solar panels, you also need batteries or capacitors to store energy. Then you need a specialized device to convert the energy to AC and distribute the energy in your house as needed. Then you would probably need a specialized electric meter to feed excess energy back into the grid if necessary.
But the day is fast coming where they will wish they had spent the money. Because once human caused global warming becomes bad enough, no amount of money will fix the problem.
Solar takes 450 times as much land to create the same energy as nuclear. Solar is more carbon intensive than nuclear. nuclear is the only solution that does not destroy habitat.
Who cares about how much land it takes. There are enough rooftops in the U.S. to equal the size of a fairly large state. And there is so much useless dessert in the U.S., solar panels wouldn't be hurting anything. In fact, it may help. As for destroying the habitat, maybe I could interest you in some land around Fukushima or Chernobyl. Chernobyl would especially nice for you. Its core is only expected to stay dangerous for about the next 4.5 billion years.
Also, radiation is bad. Ok? Where is the nuclear waste going to be stored. Where it will remain dangerous for longer than humans have existed. Also, many countries just dump their nuclear waste into the ocean. Talk about destruction of habitat!