...nuclear plants to "save our asses," because ignorance has won.
This apparently thrills antinukes, who claim building nuclear reactors is "too slow," which places them in the category of arsonists complaining about forest fires, as they were successful with their penny ante whining that led to the embrace of fossil fuels.
They also have their heads up their asses: Solar and wind energy combined have never matched the annual primary energy production put out by nuclear plants continuously since the 1990's, roughly 30 Exajoules per year, despite worldwide vast cheering and trillions of dollars put out by the solar and wind people, and picayune hostility directed at the vastly superior nuclear industry.
I note, with disgust, that the nuclear manufacturing infrastructure was deliberately vandalized in this country, which once, with engineers who trained using slide rules and computers less powerful than what's in a wristwatch today, built more than 100 nuclear reactors in this country in less than 25 years while providing the cheapest electricity on the planet.
Today, China has the kind of nuclear manufacturing infrastructure that we once had in the United States; they have 58 operable nuclear reactors and 32 under construction.
They will easily pass the United States, a country that has become to worship ignorance (regrettably on both ends of the political spectrum where energy is concerned), in nuclear energy production in this decade. I note that the United States has been, for nearly half a century, the world's largest producer of nuclear energy despite the success of antinukes in destroying its manufacturing infrastructure. This suggests that nuclear power plants, unlike wind and solar garbage, last a long time.
Nuclear energy need not be able to "save our asses" after this deliberate and ignorant sabotage by energy ignoramuses, nor does it need to be risk free to be vastly superior to everything else. It only needs to be vastly superior to everything else, which it is. It remains, as it has been for decades, our last best hope. Nothing is better, which implies everything else is worse.
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