[tuatoru]

Why? OK. The reason why nuclear has not been adopted is that society has taken against it. Politicians respond to what people want, and create rules and roadblocks.

There are alternatives that can fill the same roles you envisage for nuclear. We'll get some of those instead.

Don't talk to us nerds, go knocking on doors and persuade soccer moms and instagram influencers that nuclear is safest, cheapest, best for their kiddies. That's who you need to convince.

[pfdietz]

The people you need to convince are the people with money making the decisions. They look at nuclear and see a loser technology that consistently overpromises and underdelivers, and blows throw its cost promises again and again. In comparison, utility scale renewable installations dependably come in with 10% of the contracted figures.

V.C. Summer and Vogtle 3/4 were the nails in the coffin for nuclear here in the US. Nuclear has no time now to rebuild a reputation for honesty.

Soccer moms and instagram influencers have nothing to do with this.

[tuatoru]

They have votes. Politicians do what they say.

[ncmncm]

Politicians have arranged to be well-insulated from what soccer moms want. Soccer moms, meanwhile, are what we call a "managed population". They vote as they are told to. Not just them, of course.

We are living in the world Edward Bernays built, where democracy holds vanishingly little sway as PR machinery reliably generates votes for whatever whoever pays it wants.

Sometimes opposing payers compete.