Nuclear Tidings

A friend mentioned to me just the other day that he heard three stories in a row on local radio in North Carolina that fear-mongered against nuclear power. This seems a bit suspicious, given the increasingly favorable winds regarding nuclear power.

Nuclear is making a political comeback. Funny, how reality works sometimes. Europe just declared nuclear power "green" and sustainable, meaning that it can now be part of the European Green Deal. Japan is looking to restart its nuclear plants. South Korea is looking to boost nuclear power production, as are other Asian nations. China is expected to triple its nuclear power output across the next ten years or so. Even our domestic politicians are starting to wake up to nuclear power's promise.

For this, we can thank Putin as much as anyone else - and thank the Germans for making the colossally stupid decision to put their trust in Russian gas deliveries so they could shut down perfectly good domestic nuclear plants.

I've beaten the drum ad nauseam that reducing carbon emissions must begin with nuclear power, and lots of it. I've harped endlessly on the stupidity of a Wind and Solar and Batteries strategy that excludes nuclear power. I've pointed out time and again that all the opposition to nuclear power is born of either ignorance or politics. I don't mind being right here.

The issue, of course, is that the wild-eyed anti-nuclear activists are losing their foolish fight. There is nothing worse, apparently, than having your narrative collapse under the weight of reality. So, while anecdotes are not data, and a couple instances don't identify a trend, there is a bit of canary-in-the-wind-tunnel here. Activists rarely pack up their bags and move on, and since rationality didn't bring them to their positions, we shouldn't expect them to be facted or realitied into accepting a resurgence or proliferation of nuclear power.

Hyperbole and histrionics tell us much by their volume and intensity. The louder someone screams, the clearer it is that he's not getting what he wants. We've been seeing this in the global warming fight in recent times, with doomsday predictions growing more strident even as past ones fail to materialize. So it will go as nuclear power is finally embraced as it should have been decades ago. That some greens reject it in the face of all evidence is not only proof of their unseriousness, it's a tell-tale that they care about ideology more than people.

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