[quote=@Inkdrop]
I've out that most of the peoblems with atomic power are overblown or have been solved long ago, but everyone is so irrationally scared of radiation and so uneducated on it that we'll just keep poisoning the planet that fostered us. Because hey, one or two big booms at badly designed plants and a waste problem which has already been solved is so much worse than a power plant that pumps out toxins and is incredibly inefficient. Yes, I know, the romanticized solar and wind are the ways of the future... but a nuke plant will keep going through cloudy weather or a still day. A windmill or solar panel can't. We need better backups than fossil fuels or there's no point.
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Now I'm saying this as someone who thinks there is still a future for Nuclear energy, but I feel it has to be addressed since it is the Elephant in the room. Chernobyl and Fukushima. It's difficult to write those off. I've give you that those are imperfect situations, but imperfect situations have to be expected when dealing with people. A badly designed coal plant or solar farm isn't going to irradiate any significant area.

Also, aren't Solar plants designed with cloudy days in mind? Obviously you aren't going to get much from Seattle, but if you put them in dry areas the cloudy days will be rare enough they'll be able to feed reserves into the system until the clouds let up.  

[@Dynamo Frokane]

Regarding above... you shat in your bed, now you gotta lie in it. I ain't gonna read thirty links of aristocratic apologetics to come up with some sort of rebuttal. Not when i can look at memes and pretend to be busy.