[thayne]

> But there has been this weird strain of FUD being spread around painting renewable advocates as some sort of crazed anti-nuclear zealots

It's certainly not true of all renewable advocates, but such anti-nuclear zealots do exist, and cause resistance to nuclear. Although I don't think environmentalists and renewables advocares are the only source of resistance, and cold war fear of all things nuclear/atomic/radioactive also shares some blame.