alt Hacker News> It’s only expensive and brittle because environmentalists have choked it to death
How did they succeed with nuclear energy but fail so miserably with everything else - fossil fuels, meat, even whaling?
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coryrc • yesterday at 6:48 PM
Because they were useful idiots funded by fossil fuel companies.
(also US whaling is nearly banned by the US and most countries, and we're not going to go to war with Japan over it)
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It’s easy to make the general public fearful of nuclear because they have no direct experience with it in daily life.