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DarkTransient posted...

Firstly, not all nuclear-powered countries are looking to get away from it. In particular, South Korea is expanding their use of nuclear.

Secondly, nuclear power and nuclear weapons should be almost thought of as two different subjects. There's definitely overlap in the underlying science, and nuclear power can be used to produce material for nuclear weapons (although quite hard to do so undetected), but it's really misleading to conflate them as one single issue.

And finally, nuclear power has a high upfront cost, but the ongoing costs are by far the least of any power generation per unit of power generated. When operated correctly (and modern designs make it very hard to do so incorrectly), they are among the least-polluting - both in terms of greenhouse gases and radioactive material - of all power sources. Richer countries can perhaps afford to be like "nah, even though this is actually really safe, people think it isn't so let's use something they like more". Poorer ones often can't.

I agree that modern designs are very safe and extremely efficient. My problem is that people will still be stupid enough to overpower every safety mechanism. If even Japan was a victim of corporate greed and cost-cutting at the nuclear level, then I can't really see trusting anyone else to not fuck it up.

Given the mass rhetoric that has flown around from NK and Iran for decades, it's pretty hard for me to believe that they want just nuclear power plants.
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