From an engineering and science perspective, I'm strongly pro nuclear power. But I've become convinced that governments have neither the ability nor the incentive to do it safely or in a way that won't wreck the planet. In the US they're adamant about a once-through fuel cycle and then burying the waste to become the problem of the next thousand generations.
Honestly I hold little hope for fusion as well. At best it appears a single power plant will need to be way too large, which based on our history of large projects means decades to build and massive cost overruns such that the electricity is expensive and comes too late to have enough impact.
[@beka_valentine](https://kolektiva.social/@beka_valentine )
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