btw China has quadrupled its green energy production since 2008

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        I mean it’s green but it still wouldn’t make sense to designate specific “nuclear” areas, because you can place a nuclear power plant practically anywhere short of a desert

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          I’m absolutely not qualified to say much about this, but I did hear that China is working on liquid salt cooling, which apparently makes it feasible to put nuclear reactors in the desert.

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          Green yes (well mostly, has significant caveats worth considering).

          Renewable no. Ore, such as uranium or plutonium, is finite and will not regenerate in a reasonable timespan. Usually requires supernovae by particularly dense stars to produce heavy metals like this.