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>>5773970
You can't say fission is shit. Its not. Don't say it. Never.
Fission has a good chance of solving it. Much recent research on the Chernobyl accident points that the consequences were little of the expected. The fear is not justified. It is a combination of lack of understanding and some political groups gaining with fear mongering. Like the Iraq war.
So maybe someday people will understand better, or just not care anymore. In Germany, the ground is ripe for change, people are tired of expensive electricity and low returns from renewables. Just the political groups are holding it off, but not for long. They will either go oil or nuclear. People don't care anymore. And amongst them, nuclear is technically far better. But it lacks PR:
http://nextbigfuture.com/2013/04/nuclear-power-has-prevented-184-million.html

>>5636773
So those countries probably wouldnt need those plants. They might been better with agricultural implements or better clothing.
In any country government regulates or monopolizes an economic or political activity those are made at large expense of peoples needs and wants. In a badly wasteful way compared with the unhampered market.
But nuclear energy is so much efficient and powerful the government can make quite the poor job and fuel tariffs don't need to be too high to stop competition.
Government prohibiting free nuclear technology use by the citizenry today would be like government prohibiting use of gasoline during the 20s-60s. Or the king prohibiting anyone from being a blacksmith on the middle ages. Its a major stall of progress and society.
With the Orion Project we would have already traveled to Saturn with a 100-people Nuclear Pulse Propulsion ship. The moon would have thousands of people on it. Would would be mining ore tens of kilometers deep in the Earths crust. There would be major canals going through every continental landmass. Cities could be built and powered completely underground, inside caves excavated with nuclear explosives, while the surface could be a natural preserve or the most attractive park. Nuclear power desalinization could increase 10x the agricultural output of the poorest countries, besides providing drinking water, saving lives doubly. Cheap electrical power or steam can increase the productivity, development and exploration of all human activities. Take art for example. Would Mount Rushmore be built if the US government banished gunpowder as it does with nuclear materials? Yet gunpowder killed a tens of millions times more people.