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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.

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There has never been a terrorist attack on a nuclear facility. Nuclear facilities are a lot less attractive to terrorists than a great many other high value industrial targets. Containment domes are remarkably resistant to a plane crash – a jet aircraft would likely just crumple upon impact.

And even at Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia plant, there has not been a nuclear waste leak: It's not in Russia's interest for a nuclear incident.

For countries with proper security and high energy needs, such as the US, then nuclear is an essential supplement to solar and other renewable energy sources.

Anyone dismissing nuclear energy out of hand has a duty to suggest scalable and economically viable alternative energy sources to protect us from climate change.

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