Anti, but only because it’s far too late. Nuclear energy should have been the transitional technology that helped us move off fossil fuels and into renewables.
But due to a massive smear campaign in the 60’s and 70’s, and some unfortunate material circumstances, everybody began equating nuclear power with nuclear weapons.
Renewables are totally viable now, as China has most prominently shown in recent years. The damage that fossil fuels have done to our climate and environment are so extreme, and the political and economic entrenchment has grown so deep, that spending money and resources trying to get nuclear energy popular again is a waste.
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Anti, but only because it’s far too late. Nuclear energy should have been the transitional technology that helped us move off fossil fuels and into renewables.
But due to a massive smear campaign in the 60’s and 70’s, and some unfortunate material circumstances, everybody began equating nuclear power with nuclear weapons.
Renewables are totally viable now, as China has most prominently shown in recent years. The damage that fossil fuels have done to our climate and environment are so extreme, and the political and economic entrenchment has grown so deep, that spending money and resources trying to get nuclear energy popular again is a waste.
Nuclear energy is still popular. China is building many reactors and many countries are ordering SMRs.