General Discussion

nuclear waste and it only takes one major "accident" to push massive long term damage to the planet and elevate the costs into the trillions of dollars. When Fukushima happened I didn't see anybody talking about the necessity of going back and adding in the still ongoing costs into some cost per kWh. It should get done. If a huge natural catastrophe hits some wind turbines we won't be dealing with massive radiation cleanup and discharge into the oceans of millions of gallons of contaminated cooling water.

Nuclear has been shown to be a massive problem when things go wrong. There is no such thing as an infallible machine or construct. As we see with Fukushima, Chernobyl, Exxon Valdez and Deepwater Horizon. Massive systems with all kinds of safeguards and yet they failed and collectively have damaged millions of people and cost trillions of dollars and counting in damages and ongoing cleanup and containment that will stretch for decades and decades as well as creating "exclusion zones" on the planet that will be ruined for generations.