I'd love to compare your notes with mine from a similar set of courses in physics. Nuclear was actually quite high on the list of viable options once TCP (total cost of production) was taken into account. For solar, this means producing the solar cells, etc. The study also took into account things such as meteorological impacts from solar farms (I wouldn't have thought of it, but it was a highly interesting substudy), land use losses, costs of localized toxic spill risks, and so on. It was *amazingly* interesting, and only hammered home that even the most 'eco-friendly' power sources have their drawbacks.
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