[smashingfiasco]

He’s right, environmentalists don’t want solutions, only perpetual problems. It’s why I can’t take any of them too seriously.

They like to say stuff about how we need to fight for our lives over climate change, after that group set nuclear power generation behind by multiple decades at this point.

They like to complain about how it’s too risky, when their public fear mongering have effectively left us with a fleet of reactors for the 1960’s and 1970’s that have outlived their planned lives. And the NRC has no choice but to extend their operating licenses until it becomes too expensive for the utilities to maintain. So they get shut down.

Wouldn’t be surprised to find out that the lot of these talking heads have had their palms greased by the renewable industry.

Eff them all.

[voxl]

Yikes. Talk about ignoring externalities. The energy industry is still run by oil and gas, not renewables, not nuclear. We've made a lot of progress but to think that Nuclear is a better solution than renewables is not an automatically won debate.

[porpoisely]

Nuclear in the US has historically been the victim of deep pocketed fossil fuel industry and their PR and lobbying efforts. Now, it's getting it from the fledgling renewable energy industry also.

Many of these environmental groups are likely funded by both the fossil fuel industry and the renewable industry. Heck much of the renewable industry is owned by the fossil fuel companies.

People forget how big and powerful fossil fuel companies are. The largest company in the US ( by revenue ) is Exxon. 3 of the 5 largest companies ( by revenue ) in the US are fossil fuel companies. Nuclear doesn't stand a chance without some real heavyweights pushing for it.