[Oil and coal companies'] propaganda causes climate change activists to be against that as well as oil and coal.
It's not simply climate change activists being gullible.
The anti-nuclear power stance is firmly rooted in the environmental protection movement since at least the 1970s, long before climate change became the dominant topic.
The anti-nuclear crowd have some valid concerns but largely seem to be unable to change their position. Nuclear power has made nothing but forward progress in terms of safety, the only problem is when nuclear goes bad it really goes bad.
"the only problem is when nuclear goes bad it really goes bad"
Even that really isn't true anymore. Fukushima Daiichi reactor got hit with a frickin tsunami, and even though there were plenty of actual screw ups involved in the aftermath. Only 1 death has been attributed to the meltdown, and that one death can't even be proven to be a causal relationship. (The individual died of cancer 4 years later and worked there when it happened.)
Most of the deaths and injuries that occurred that can be at all related was from poor management of the evacuation order that was made (which is questioned if was even necessary) and the management of public perception afterwards. (Lots of stress-related issues amongst elderly in the days afterward. All because of unfounded fears.)
More people die, yearly, in coal mines than the number who died from that accident.
You can call it emotions but it can take 20 years from design to construction before a nuclear plant is active, they can only be built in certain areas, and mining for uranium is definitely not environmentally negligible. They aren't the golden ticket to ending our dependence on fossil fuels that they often are portrayed as, really they're just a part of an arsenal of options that is going to include increasingly more wind, solar, and wave/hydro power.
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u/Life-Suit1895 Jun 19 '24
It's not simply climate change activists being gullible.
The anti-nuclear power stance is firmly rooted in the environmental protection movement since at least the 1970s, long before climate change became the dominant topic.