Nuclear power plants are just sitting ducks for terrorists or worse as we are seeing at Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia plant. In the US we have nuclear waste sitting around in pools around the plants. You won't even have to penetrate the containment vessel to attack and disperse high level nuclear waste.
Then there is the opportunity cost of investing orders of magnitude more into an uncertain future of Nuclear rather than just accelerating the learning curve and cost reductions of renewable energy sources and storage.
Re the nuclear piece; check out these guys who have produced compact nuclear reactors that are cheap and easy to deploy (relative to the old nuclear technologies) and they have been approved to deploy in the US. (I have no financial interest in them whatsoever) https://newsroom.nuscalepower.com/press-releases/news-details/2022/NuScale-Announces-Strategic-Shift-to-Product-Services-and-Delivery-Organization-as-Company-Approaches-Commercialization/default.aspx?utm_source=nuscalepower&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=default-hero-1
Nuclear power plants are just sitting ducks for terrorists or worse as we are seeing at Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia plant. In the US we have nuclear waste sitting around in pools around the plants. You won't even have to penetrate the containment vessel to attack and disperse high level nuclear waste.
Then there is the opportunity cost of investing orders of magnitude more into an uncertain future of Nuclear rather than just accelerating the learning curve and cost reductions of renewable energy sources and storage.