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Nuclear is the best btw.

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[–] trem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Huh. We don't either in Germany, but I assumed, it was largely because the whole place is inhabitated. Is there not some desert or Alaska or something in the US, where no one minds?

We actually have a perfect place for it in the yucca mountains that was designated in the 1980s, but the actual construction of it has been held up since then thanks to nimby shit.

I would love to see the US head towards nuclear power, but I'm not hopeful it's ever going to happen. By design the federal government just doesn't have the power to mandate a state to do anything it doesn't want too, and a functional electric grid powered by nuclear would require more federal control than what is possible in the foreseeable future.

Our government was designed to grant corporations and the aristocratic class to be able to exert a huge amount of influence over the government. They have decided that it's a lot more profitable to not progress past fossil fuels.