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[kristopher]

27. So your opinion is backed by the opinion of other nonspecialists?

Does that mean you have zero basis for your claim in the academic literature?

You are wrong. You won't be able to find peer reviewed support for your position because it doesn't exist. And it doesn't exist because it isn't a valid proposition.

There are loads of "opinions" out there, but, there is absolutely no substantiation for those opinions from any sector of academic study. Take Hansen etal. for example - opinion with no supporting evidence and tons of contradictory evidence.

A flip way of supporting my position is to point you to some of the most enthusiastic pronuclear academic literature out there, MIT's 2003 study "The Future of Nuclear Power".

They endorsed nuclear power but because of the constraints of academic ethics, they refused to stake out the position you espouse. Being as the entire document was designed to promote the potential and need for nuclear power, if they had been able to make the case you can bet your bippy they would have had it plastered everywhere from the Executive Summary to the EndNotes.