Isn’t nuclear power evil?
I like the response here. One might observe of course that what is good, from the POV of sustainability is what casts the smallest footprint in the biosphere while meeting human needs. Right now, as Professor Brook and others have demonstrated, that is nuclear power — even of the Gen11 LWR type. Far less land and precious water has to be used. Far less mining has to take place than is even the case with official renewables. Even the best renewable source in Australia right now — hydro — casts a bigger footprint than nuclear. I also think that somewhere in the section on proliferation, we can make the point that new nuclear power plants can do the “turning swords into plowshares” thing by converting forever, materiel that could be used in nuclear weapons, into energy to run our homes and our industry.
