So, how are they going to replace these power stations?
Wind: doesn’t scale well, very difficult to build transfer systems, expensive.
Solar: requires massive collection stations, expensive, unreliable.
Wave / Hydro: Wave/tidal generators are in infancy, but could be operational in a decade or two, hydro is still best option (if you have rivers aplenty and don’t mind flooding out huge areas as you build dams.
Clean coal: contradiction in terms.
So the only viable options are more coal and oil based plants, which pollute, disseminate more radioactivity in a day than a nuclear reactor, cause multiple life-threatening diseases, and have high worker injury rates.
Or: import power from France, the most advanced nation in the world in clean energy: 90% provided by nuclear stations.
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