50 years of human flourishing taken away because of political decisions, one cannot imagine what good cheap and clean energy would have helped during the inflationary years post 1971 Nixon shock. Still I am amazed at how much could be done back then with so much less advanced technologies and computing power so with enough will and the bitcoin mining incentives it might still be possible to get back on track

galt

It did, even though if the safety concerns about the plant had been raised for more than ten years but nothing was done to prevent a tsunami scenario. Luckily there few nuclear disasters and all all them were not because of the technology but rather human mistakes and some designs can make impossible meltdown or explosion so hopefully we will get there eventually

It is not to late. But we do have to get serious about it. Unfortunately, Fukushima scared the shit out of a lot of people 

TNStacker

tech

Why did politicians held back nuclear for decades?

Moving away from nuclear energy may have been one of the biggest mistakes humans did. I hope it is not too late. I am optimistic about fusion now because there are large investments on it and a lot of projects doing their best from different approaches. AI is helping in new methods that were impossible before like predicting magnetic fields to control them. 