If President Carter hadn’t fscked over the nuclear industry by banning reprocessing, and thus opening the fuel cycle, we wouldn’t have all this waste to deal with… it would all be fuel again, and again.
If environmentalists thought through the implications of their tactics before making nuclear energy out to be an evil boogie man, we’d have a much more efficient and continuously replenished inventory of plants turning out ever more energy at ever better prices. We could have even made the switch to Thorium molten salt reactors by now, which are quite a bit safer and generate a lot less plutonium.
Trump sucks, but he’s just the latest layer in a shit sandwich.
