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The anti-nuclear movement is up there as one of the most destructive of all-time. The triumph of emotion over rationality, and we haven’t even started to truly pay the price. From: https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/the-activists-who-embrace-nuclear-power …pic.twitter.com/yYX9Z3X8Gw
And yet the anti-nuclear movement was also way up there in moral certainty. Which is a cautionary lesson about movements in general.
The antinuclear movement existed before we understood carbon emission problems and the nuclear industry still hasn’t solved the spent fuel storage issue.
These takes completely ignore the higher cost of nuclear and the fact that fossil fuel interests led a lot of the lobbying against it. Low priced natural gas has been the biggest driver of nuclear retirement in the US. https://www.wsj.com/articles/oil-gas-lobby-opposes-state-subsidies-for-nuclear-power-producers-1493145109 …pic.twitter.com/orQgamHNtW
Which is bad
Perhaps we are just uniquely bad at risk assessment vs emotion
There's also amplified effects with media. Man bites dog. Coal kills far more people than Chernobyl did, but it's a background thing, so boring for the news.
The idea that nuclear is dangerous was aggressively spread by western governments when Chernobyl happened. In hindsight it was probably propaganda with the purpose to destabilize the Soviet Union. The antinuclear movement was a result of that.
There's a link between watching The Simpson and opposition to nuclear power, but it's also the case that they were generally an easy target at the time it was made.
On a cost argument alone nuclear likely doesn’t make sense now because of the time to bring online vs. speed we need solutionshttps://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vaG93dG9zYXZlYXBsYW5ldA/episode/YjVjNDgzNzAtZDhmOS0xMWVhLWIyZTYtZWJkZGFiYTBjZDli?hl=en&ved=2ahUKEwjbmIq2wP3uAhXMW80KHfgtBLkQjrkEegQIFhAK&ep=6 …
This is a not a reason to avoid building nukes; it's a reason to iterate faster, which means different kinds of nukes. Huge, expensive, multi-1000+ mw reactor installations may not be the right approach.
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