IndepthNH has an op-ed that says what I said about the nuclear dreams in New Hampshire, although their piece has more background and details,
If the Governor really wants to drive down consumer electricity and energy costs and create more “energy independence”, she has a number of home grown options: (1) accelerate energy efficiency efforts, (2) increase support for proven and cheaper renewable energy sources such as solar, offshore-wind, hydroelectric, geothermal and biomass, (which have low or zero fuel costs and cost less to build) and (3) support utility-scale battery storage. Why would we Granite Staters want to gamble on more nuclear power?
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It feels as if we are in the early 1900’s, controlled by a horse and buggy lobby preventing us from switching to cars while the rest of the world moves forward. Now it is the oil and gas industry buying every politician and preventing us from switching to renewables. The rest of the world will make the switch while we plod along behind.
Nuclear is a false and super expensive hope, also super dangerous unless we figure out how to store the waste. It will take time and innovation to safely bring new nuclear online and is horrifying to think of doing it in a crazy rush overseen by the current anti-science administration.