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tolcihotoday at 4:38 AM1 replyview on HN

What about the opposition from the not exactly environmentalist orgs?

> "The failure of the U.S. nuclear power program ranks as the largest managerial disaster in business history, a disaster on a monumental scale ... only the blind, or the biased, can now think that the money has been well spent. It is a defeat for the U.S. consumer and for the competitiveness of U.S. industry, for the utilities that undertook the program and for the private enterprise system that made it possible." — "Nuclear Follies". Forbes Magazine. 1985.


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AnthonyMousetoday at 6:17 AM

The fossil fuel industries and their shills? Probably not lamenting the delay in moving way from fossil fuels the same way the environmental groups ought to be.

Notice that it was also them (specifically Russia, a major petroleum exporting country) funding those anti-nuclear environmental groups:

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/P-9-2022-00127...

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