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It's a shame we aren't seemingly taking them into consideration in the whole energy transition crisis we are in.
But rather let's just keep sending people into hazardous coal mines while ignoring nuclear energy until the solution to all our problems magically comes to us.
What do you mean by this, nuclear of all things is supposed to be the solution? Maybe fusion some day, but definitely not fission. But that's fine, because we already have a perfectly capable and renewable solution, and that is called wind and solar. The sun is doing fusion every day for us and irradiates the surface of the Earth so much that we could support many multiples of our civilisation.
I'm not trying to say nuclear is the definitive solution, but it's certainly a step in the right direction. Progress is progress, we don't have to find the final solution in one go.
Solution already magically arrived. It's called nuclear