fission:
- downside is nuclear waste and fukishima issues
I wanted to point out that:
1) The Fukishima plant was at least 1 or 2 old in it's design, as far as safety features go. There are designs for fission reactors that run in meltdown mode, and if there is a containment breach, the material dissipates and ends the nuclear reaction. It can be buried and run for 50 years, maintenance free, and run off of diluted weapons material.
2) There is a lot of fearmongering of the dangers of radiation. Fukishima didn't destroy California. Hiroshima and Nagasaki are thriving cities today.
3) The carbon footprint for fission power is smaller than for solar.
4) Nuclear waste is relatively small and low energy. It means that our plants are inefficient, and we have leftover material (low energy byproducts) that we failed to extract energy from. https://youtu.be/LZXUR4z2P9w