Nukes are coming

The world is finally waking up to the fact that wind and solar will not replace fossil fuels but nuclear can. The trend is toward small nuclear reactors and these are under construction in Argentina, China, Russia and four units in Darlington, Canada. Plans are submitted for units in Wyoming, Texas and Tennessee. The big tech companies are planning on using small reactors to power data centers. Companies like Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Meta are investing in and partnering with developers to build small modular reactors (SMRs) to power their energy-intensive data centers. Current technology favors uranium as fuel but the future will be thorium. China is now operating a small thorium reactor and building a larger version. They plan to mass produce small reactors (300 megawatt) on an assembly line basis and sell these around the world. The whole process of going nuclear has been delayed by those who insist that wind and solar is best. If it had not been for this delay the nuclear industry would be years ahead of where it is now.