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It's the only form of energy generation that internalizes all of its own costs- including disposing waste and insuring cleanup.

If we forced oil companies to internalize the cost of fracking casualty and wastewater reinjection alone, gas would be $50/gal.

This happens all the time. It happened to New York State after the decommission of Indian Point, it happened to Germany, it literally happens everywhere nuclear reactors are decommissioned, because fossil fuels provide the reliable and tunable capacity of nuclear power with explicit domestic and foreign subsidies driving down its cost. We keep talking about renewables displacing fossil fuels but German fossil gas consumption is going up, not down.

I don't know if that's true lol, this is reddit we're talking about.

But yeah, I missed that you were pisstaking; my b.

And Germany added 36M tons of emissions because they replaced the decommissioned reactors with fossil gas.

Sorry but that's an absurd way to construe the point I was making. "Energy Independence" when used in a geopolitical context involves essentially fuel-exporting nations exploiting their supply chain position in order to win political concessions from importers- such as Russia holding Northern Europe hostage over oil and fossil gas in response to European resistance to the invasion of Ukraine. Commonwealth nations share close relationships that are unlikely to degenerate to the point where Australia or Canada are invading their neighbors and holding the UK's electricity hostage.

Raw materials are not the choke point for nuclear energy independence- enrichment facilities are, of which the UK has three that produce an exportable surplus. Even if it was, Canada and Australia are second and third in the world in Uranium reserves, which is convenient for the country that houses their King.

Nuclear energy is green- it's the only energy worldwide that internalizes its externalities and is made to cost what it costs to the environment.

Okay, but we aren't willing not to license dumb drivers because we have decided as a society that to lose your car is to lose your right to an independent life. We aren't willing to hold dumb drivers accountable for killing people for the same reason. We establish parking minimums for dive bars even though we know people are going to drink and drive and kill people.

This is the only correct answer. Cars kill so many people it's absurd.

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