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Five Things the “Nuclear Bros” Don’t Want You to Know About Small Modular Reactors
(blog.ucsusa.org)
this post was submitted on 17 May 2024
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This is why it's always the conservative parties advocating for it, as they are in bed with the fossil fuel industry.
If Bill Gates likes it, then im out.
Ill stick with renewables like a fine modern citizen.
Have you got anything to back that up with? Because the problems with nuclear power have been almost exclusively caused by conservative governments. The ludicrous licensure requirements are the largest factor in driving the cost of nuclear facilities so far out of the realm of feasibility, and those have been imposed almost exclusively by conservative governments (~~with a special shoutout to Al Gore~~ Okay that's unfair, his legislation on nuclear power was largely based on anti-corruption ideals and not the ideals of the anti-nuclear movement)
See the Australian conservative opposition (Liberal and National parties), for example. They are bought and paid for by the fossil fuel industry, have no actual plan to roll out nuclear, but are using it as a delay tactic. See also how conservative parties are attacking renewables but not directly talking about coal (for the most part) because they know that the general public won't accept it anymore. Conveniently, attacking renewables and talking up nuclear is an easy way to keep coal around for a little longer.
Your points are more historical, I'm talking more about the last few years or so, the period where most conservatives now won't admit to being climate change deniers, but incidentally have positions that worsen climate change.
It's more your characterization that only conservatives are advocating for nuclear (and by extension that nuclear advocacy is only to serve the interests of fossil fuel companies) that I'm taking issue with, since it's overly reductive, regressive, an opinion which can be trivially shown to be incorrect and is a direct insult to me, personally. You're coming across like an asshole that spouts blatant conspiracy theories when I seriously doubt you'd give that impression IRL.