Comment on Can somebody please explain why the world hasn't gone nuclear yet?

Allero@lemmy.today ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Initially, world war very nuclear-positive

Then, Idaho, Chernobyl and much later Fukushima happened, slowly turning the world against nuclear as a dangerous energy production option. Association with nuclear weapons and Cold War didn’t help, either.

In the meanwhile, renewables like solar and wind, which were initially prohibitively expensive, got more traction and investment, and as a result of new developments and economies of scale, they eventually managed to become cheaper than nuclear in most areas of the world, rendering nuclear power financially inefficiny and thus generally obsolete.

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