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I answered your question in the first line: "Regulations that politicians pass after pressure from environmental groups that disagree with cleaner, safer technologies based on their beliefs." If local communities pass local regulations, that no longer make it profitable to build a plant there, they won't build a plant there. If every community does that where it would be profitable for a plant to be built, the plant doesn't get built. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has renewed operating licenses and existing plants have purchased new reactors, but all of that is just about maintaining the plants that have already been around for decades.

The tangent was not about atheists, deists, Republicans, and Democrats. They were examples of "people with extremely opposing viewpoints."

I'm not sure where you got the idea that I'm a sailor. In my profile it does mention that I am a mariner. There is a difference in the maritime industry between the two terms. A sailor is an enlisted person or commissioned officer in the Navy. A mariner is not.