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by concinds 782 days ago
It's ironic that we're only now seeing renewed pro-nuclear sentiment, as a backlash to the mistakes of the German Energiewende (and the preceding decades of stupid anti-nuclearism), just as renewables and battery tech are becoming highly affordable. They're now cheaper than nuclear in most (probably all) cases.

Hopefully we avoid trying to fix the dogmatic mistakes of the past and in so doing, make a new dogmatic mistake in the present. Anti-nuclear policies were wrong back then, but I think the time for nuclear has probably passed.