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[donquijoterocket]

You're going to defend it,defend the whole process including the extraction and processing of ore for fuel and the long term costs associated with that , and the disposal of high level nuclear waste, and the decommissioning of plants at the end of their useful life, and the costs of indemnifying those installations against possible accidents and hazards.
I see nothing nuclear energy can accomplish that could not be done more responsibly with a very stringent conservation program including the design of more energy efficient structures and modes of transport powered by energy created by appropriately sized technologies deployed at the point of consumption.Wind and solar especially factoring in advances in efficiency and reduction in costs as economies of scale are reached would do the job with much less risk to humans or the environment.