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Nuclear Power Can Save the World
As young people rightly demand real solutions to climate change, the question is not what to do — eliminate fossil fuels by 2050 — but how. Beyond decarbonizing today’s electric grid, we must use clean electricity to replace fossil fuels in transportation, industry and heating. We must provide for the fast-growing energy needs of poorer countries and extend the grid to a billion people who now lack electricity. And still more electricity will be needed to remove excess carbon dioxide from the atmosphere by midcentury.
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There's a simple reason why it's not going to happen. (Apart from the fact we have only 200 years of nuclear fuel left if we burn it at the current rate.) The total cost of power from a nuclear power station, factoring in the cost of building, installation, mining and transporting fuel, used fuel disposal/storage and decommissioning, (without factoring in any accidents), is way over the cost of renewables plus batteries.