It's massively expensive to set up
It's massively expensive to decommission at end of life
Almost half of the fuel you need to run them comes from a country dangerously close to Russia. (This one is slightly less of a thing now that Russia has bogged itself down in Ukraine)
It takes a long time to set up.
It has an image problem.

A combination of solar, wind, wave, tidal, more traditional hydro and geothermal (most of the cost with this is digging the holes. We've got a lot of deep old mines that can be repurposed) can easily be built to over capacity and or alongside adequate storage is the best solution in the here and now.

[–] uis@lemm.ee -4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

You realise you don't need to decomission entire building at EOL?

[–] bmarinov@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

What about the storage for the used fuel? This is a massive problem for any country not occupying half a continent.

[–] uis@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

As first step separate useful isotopes from used fuel. Most of used fuel are them. The rest won't be as big.

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