You are totally correct. Nuclear power is still the most efficient power source on the planet.
The trick is getting governments and power companies to comply with safety requirements first. Then, a plan to shut down 50 year-old dinosaurs in a phase-out process while introducing safer, modern designs should be next.
It scares the living daylights out of me knowing most of these plants can not keep a meltdown from happening should their power sources fail for longer than 4 hours. Surely there is a better solution than this.
Make a plan. Stick to the plan. Use technology and stop wasting taxpayer resources and time on solar and wind power.
“Then, a plan to shut down 50 year-old dinosaurs in a phase-out process while introducing safer, modern designs should be next.”
And the reason this is not happening is because the no nuke freaks have made it impossible to build any more plants. So we keep running the old ones, complete with all of their old technology and (hindsight being twenty twenty) design flaws.
I am not scared of the ones we have now, catastrophic, uncontrollable failures are highly unlikely.
But we could do better if we were allowed to.
(By “we” I mean society in general - not trying to imply I have anything to do with the nuclear power industry)