Bill Gates On Climate Change And Nuclear

This is kinda interesting.

   Though...he discusses new, "super-safe" reactors, and reactors that can run on spent fuel, thus reducing the amount of nuclear waste in the world. Which is all great. However, if you really think that this is an emergency--e.g. an "existential crisis" with a near-future tipping-point...which Gates never says, incidentally--you should just start building new light-water reactors (or whatever we're using now) as fast as possible. They're way safe--certainly preferable to a climate apocalypse--and we should worry about the waste in the future. Needless to say, I'd prefer safer, waste-eating super-reactors just like everybody else. But if we were really facing a climate apocalypse, that's not where we'd be putting our energies. We'd be focusing on absolutely nothing but cranking down carbon emissions as quickly as possible. There is absolutely, positively nothing about nuclear that is dangerous enough to warrant passing it up.

   They do take a long time to build--but we could cut down the amount of time required by easing up on regulation. Even if we have a Chernobyl a year it'd be better than a climate apocalypse, no?