Comment Re:For a moment I thought my data leaked again! (Score 1) 71
I don't know that nuclear needs to be in everyone's energy mix. I was excited about SMR when I first heard about it, but the more I read it became clear it's going to generate just as much waste that we still don't know what to do with. Instead of being generated at one big plant we're going to spread it out all over a bunch of little ones. Maybe we should talk about what our true needs are. Do we need to have a cell phone in every single pair of hands? Do we need massive displays for advertising? Do we need major metropolitan cities lit up like a Christmas tree? Do we need gigabit Internet in every home with every person interconnected and doing something online 24x7x365? Just 100 years ago we didn't have anything like that and people survived just fine. How did this suddenly become "critical infrastructure"?