Because Greenpeace and other powerful lobby groups convinced Americans that nuclear power was more dangerous than fossil fuels.
I'm not one of those tinfoil hatters who rants about how the anti-nuclear movement was seeded and sponsored by the Soviets... but I will say that if they didn't do that, they overlooked some of the most useful idiots at their disposal.
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Because Greenpeace and other powerful lobby groups convinced Americans that nuclear power was more dangerous than fossil fuels.
I'm not one of those tinfoil hatters who rants about how the anti-nuclear movement was seeded and sponsored by the Soviets... but I will say that if they didn't do that, they overlooked some of the most useful idiots at their disposal.