> Hacker News is hostile to fission and defeatist (unable to contemplate innovation in fission technology) but this attitude will gradually change.

Lots of us like fission and think the fears are overestimated.

Nevertheless, the observation is that new developments in fission tend to result in the cost increasing, not decreasing.

And I say that as someone with a similar mindset regarding fusion, though for different reasons: you can pick aneutronic fusion reactions… but look at what weapons can proliferate with transmutation from the neutrons you can also choose, and ask which governments will turn them down.