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The “Nuclear Energy Paradox”- Investigating nuclear imaginaries in energy projections
(www.sciencedirect.com)
People, both here and at large, underestimate the effort and money spent by nuclear energy lobbyists to propagandise about Nuclear energy's safety and profitability.
I saw a huge event nearby, touted as an educational science fair, whose main purpose was to straight up spread misinformation to kids. The one I remember being "Solar creates 14 times the radioactive waste than nuclear!" and another pretending that low-level nuclear waste isn't thaaat dangerous.
If the technology significantly advances as it's long-promised, there may be some limited room for nuclear energy. But as things stand now, renewables + storage is the cheapest form of energy in the vast majority of cases. And if its efficiency keeps improving as it has, that'll upgrade to 'basically all the cases'.