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by Reedx 2504 days ago
Those definitely didn't help, but the Chernobyl disaster and fear have been handicapping nuclear energy for decades. It was a big mistake (wrt climate change) that we didn't invest a lot more in nuclear technology.

It's been stuck in the past, instead of e.g., Gen IV: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_IV_reactor