In particular, the US Energy Secretary, Janet Granholm has declared that nuclear energy is essential to addressing climate change, and the Biden administration is quietly - in the face of the type of appalling ignorance of anti-nukes that one can often see here and elsewhere - working both to extend the life of nuclear plants and to hire outstanding scientists for reactor development.
I remarked on one of these scientists over in the Science forum here:
Viewpoint: Kathryn Huff, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy at the US DOE.
While Dr. Huff's title is amusing, the fact is that she is an outstanding scientist/engineer; far brighter than the morons who whine about Fukushima while 18,000-19,000 people - more than have died from Covid on Covid's worst day - each day from air pollution because so called "renewable energy" did not do anything to address climate change, is not doing anything to address climate change, and will not do anything to address climate change.
That's a fact. Facts matter.
Since the Germans announced the nuclear phase out was finalized in 2011, the rate of additions of the dangerous fossil fuel waste carbon dioxide to the atmosphere increased from a decadal rate of 2.04 ppm/year to 2.44 ppm/year, in just 10 years. (These figures are taken from the ten year rates of increase published weekly at the Mauna Loa Carbon Dioxide Observatory.) For the week beginning Jan 2, 2011, the concentration of this dangerous fossil fuel waste rose from 391.83 ppm to 415.15 ppm measured in the week beginning Jan 3, 2021.
It should have been obvious that making energy supplies dependent on the weather while destroying totally the stability of weather patterns wasn't a particularly good idea, but I confess that even I once believed this tripe, but subsequently educated myself.
I'm not sure that this registers among the people who worship the German program, here and elsewhere, a program which has no serious approach to eliminating its dependence or Russian gas and German and imported coal for electricity and other forms of consumer energy.
As for the cost of these schemes: It is the poor who suffer; the rich couldn't care less. The rich would rather discuss their Tesla cars.
The world is waking up to that reality, albeit too late. Much of what might have been saved has been lost irretrievably because of these popular appeals to fear and ignorance, and more will be irretrievably lost.
If I recall my active tenure here in this forum, the response has been giggles and slogans.
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