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I mean it's not the solution. We can't afford to rely on fossil fuels for twenty more years while we build nuclear plants. Nuclear is probably the best way to generate power but it takes so long to get running and will be a small portion of the solution to climate change. Building nuclear is a good idea but renewables can happen now and we can see immediate benefit. Also keep in mind a lot of the success of nuclear in the West is a result of cheap uranium from colonial exploitation. Nuclear isn't a silver bullet, more of a pellet in silver buckshot.
Of course it's not the solution. Much like geothermal isn't the solution, or wind isn't the solution. They're all tools we need to be using, right the hell now.
And the decades long startup time for reactors is solely a mater of political will. There's no reason we can't have modern nuclear power plants up and running in the span of a couple years, rather than decades. These aren't the rinky-dink 1960's reactors that melt down if the operator is an arrogant capitalist asshole. Modern designs take that choice out of human hands—if things go sideways, they self-terminate.