More expensive because your little horse in the race has a ton of subsidies.
Without them, solar's a VERY expensive beast to push.

As for proliferation. You run more than one reactor. So you burn down any and all byproducts until you essentially have lead.

As for less stable.

Explain stability issues in a liquid fueled molten salt reactor.

Explain how this is better than burning fossil fuels in the megatons every year and blowing most of the waste up a smokestack and into the environment...

Yes, the final byproducts of a fission system tend to be nasty and short lived or long-lived and relatively harmless. But they CAN be contained.

You know what "contains" the stuff the fossil fuel companies blow into the atmosphere?

Nothing. MAYBE outer space. But other than that...nothing.

So, pick your poison. Something you can lock away for a couple hundred years and be done with it, or breath it in over the course of your lifetime.

Of course it makes no sense!

Why would a nice, stable form of baseline power with a compact, energy-dense fuel supply interest anyone? Amiright?

Fortunately, in this case, it's what someone who's sick of BOTH "parties" is saying because he wants the entire group of game-players, pork farmers and pretty much ANYONE deeply entrenched in the political process stripped of their job, and have the jobs handed to people who actually want to do the damn job the way it's supposed to be done.

We might have to go through several ENTIRE crops of candidates and basically cripple the government for a few years, but, in the end, the message is sends is this.

"The party's over. Get back to fucking work."

Sorry, but they're two sides of the same shaved coin.

They talk a good game of bullshit so you actually think there's significant differences.

But the fact is, the US has a one-party system with two marginally differentiated factions who bicker over trivialities whilst selling the country to the highest bidder.

No.

This is surgery. In some cases, with a wound, you can clean it out and it'll heal up nicely.

But, sometimes, it's bad enough that you basically just need to excise the whole thing, till you have nothing but healthy tissue.

That's what needs to happen here.

They all need to go. All the game-players, and special-interest pork farmers. ALL OF THEM.

You don't leave any behind to reinfect the wound.

We can then drop in an entire group new guys and be EXPLICIT about why they now have their jobs and the the other guys are now holding "Will legislate 4 food" signs.

You MIGHT have to do it a couple times. And yeah, it'd be disruptive as hell. But, eventually, the message would be gotten.

Contrary to popular belief, "do without" IS an alternative.
Just, in this day and age, it's a very self-limiting, "cut off your nose to spite your face" alternative. As the only one who continues to be hurt is you.

Lemme guess, you play the lottery too.
Did you play Powerball this week? Did you win the jackpot?

Man, your streak is just taking you NOPLACE.

Sorry, but if all sides are gigantic, lying pricks, I honestly don't care to stand around dicksizing just so I can declare THE most gigantic, lying prick.

I want them gone. All of them. GONE.

The fact that you're still willing to weigh them against one another shows that you still have some growing to do and some brainwashing to flush out.

Yes. Because everyone in the same department's hard drives quit ALL AT ONCE!

Yep!

Dream on.

Oh grow the fuck up Lois Lerner.

No you jackass. He's being a politician.

Republican, Democrat, WHATEVER, they're all saying the same thing to you (whatever they think will make you vote for them) now, and doing whatever the fuck they can to maximize benefit to their personal pocket book later.

If you think this is somehow mitigated by party affiliation, you REALLY need to stop abusing your prescriptions and hike your way out of fantasy land.

Then I apologize for the inference.

Yes, because nasty shit like this, and the things that follow it, ALWAYS stay contained!

Not to mention that it's just shrugging off the sheer misery happening over the entire continent...

You ever actually see what sales are like at a gaming convention?

Apparently not.

Uh yeah. That's the point. You build a baseline system with nuclear.
Then augment it with renewables like existing Hydro, and the growing solar, wind and geo to smooth out peaks in demand.

One can, however, build a nuclear baseline that meets the majority of needs and use other forms of power (preferably ones that don't release CO2 back into the atmosphere) for peak power.

Sure it is. For the NG suppliers.

Also, how is a shutdown "bad for its components" in something like a molten salt reactor?
Oh that's right. It isn't. It's a simple, gravity-driven process that IMMEDIATELY shuts down the reaction. And there's no water to superheat and cause explosions.

Sorry, but if you think you can run the country on just renewables plus NG, you're insane.