EU court rules nuclear energy is clean energy

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I agree that the fears are overblown, but at the same time the hype for nuclear is just weird. It's more complex, more expensive, less adjustable and more risky. Even the new hip small modular reactors are many years away.

The LCOE (Levelized Cost of Electricity) for solar with battery is already better than current solutions, and dropping. Wind and battery closely following. There is no way that nuclear technology will be able to compete on price in the foreseeable future.

How is the hype for a limitless clean energy source, something that could benefit every aspect of humanity more than any other invention in human history considered “weird”?

Because this limitless clean energy source is too expensive, even though it had 60+ years time. I hope the day fusion energy finally has its big breakthrough isn't too far away, but conventional nuclear won't solve our problems.

Wind and solar are literally fusion power with extra steps.

Running our own fusion reactors would be great but waste is not limited to fission designs. All nuclear generation has radioactive waste, it’s unavoidable.

Grid scale storage with renewables can absolutely meet our needs.

> extra steps.

Those extra steps are crucial, as they massively dilute the output and make it weather/daylight and seasonally dependent.

Intermittent renewables produce at least an order of magnitude more waste than nuclear reactors, be they fusion or fission.