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by RNAlfons 948 days ago
Are you joking? This is a blog post by some guy from a venture which invests into nuclear outlining a conspiracy theory where the Nuclear Information Resource Service (NIRS), the Safe Energy Communication Council (SECC), and Greenpeace slowed down nuclear around the world? What?
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The blog post simply links to a scanned 1991 document from the major anti-nuclear players laying out their strategy. It includes folks like Ralph Nader.

ICYMI: https://atomicinsights.com/wp-content/uploads/Antinuclear-st...

Given the absolutely massive popularity of the antinuclear movement, the fringe belief is actually to think the legal intervenors that came out of it had negligible impact.

Germany for example had a 100% complete fast breeder reactor called SNR-300, designed to provide sustainable low carbon 24/7 energy for decades. Before it could turn on for the first time, protestors rioted. They never turned it on. Today it's an amusement park. Now that is impact.

Neither you nor the blog post "just" do something.

You both imply a conspiracy resulting from this document. You have no proof for any connection to anything relevant going from that.

The SNR-300 story is also completely unrelated. You just stacked it upon the conspiracy theory.

Not to double-spiderman you or anything, but from my perspective, your claims that the anti-nuclear movement was not a significant cause of nuclear power cost escalations worldwide appear to be baseless. Not sure how old you are, but the scale of the movement worldwide is pretty flabbergasting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-nuclear_movement

My claim is that the conspiracy theory that you shared here and which is based upon that scanned document is just that. A conspiracy theory.

I never said there were no anti-nuclear movement.

There are many and in every country they have their own reasons and are more or less influential. For example: there hasn't been a anti-nuclear movement as influential as it was in Germany. This is why Germany was able to replace nuclear with renewables and push it's development for the whole planet. However, no German politician participated in your conspiracy.

Your pitiful attempt at derailing only say something about yourself.