Nuclear Power's Rebound Causes Rift Among Environmentalists

[dalton99a]

https://www.wsj.com/articles/nuclear-powers-rebound-causes-rift-among-environmentalists-11662111001
https://archive.ph/c6a6R

Nuclear Power’s Rebound Causes Rift Among Environmentalists
A new generation of activists and some governments are reconsidering nuclear power as a solution to energy shortages and climate change, while other environmental groups remain staunchly opposed
By Paul Vieira
Sept. 2, 2022 5:30 am ET

At a rally outside November’s United Nations climate-change summit in Glasgow, Scotland, nuclear energy advocate Chris Keefer was heckled, told to go away and called “a nuclear moron” by one attendee over a loudspeaker.

Mr. Keefer, a Toronto emergency-room doctor who runs Canadians for Nuclear Energy, a group of about 50 environmentalists who believe nuclear is needed to reach net-zero carbon emissions, said he spends “an inordinate amount of my time and energy in a rear-guard battle against environmentalists, you know, whose goals I broadly share in terms of taking aggressive climate-change action.”

While many environmental groups and green political parties in the U.S., Canada and Europe have long opposed nuclear power as dirty and risky, a new generation of climate activists—including a branch of Fridays for Future movement, which draws its inspiration from Greta Thunberg—argue that nuclear power can be a valuable low-emission alternative to fossil fuels. The opposing viewpoints are fueling a contentious divide among environmental groups and within green political parties, an issue that has grown more pronounced in recent months amid the world’s energy crisis.

The U.K., France and Canada have pledged to increase their nuclear-power capacity as an alternative to Russian energy and to more polluting energy sources, such as coal. Some jurisdictions that previously planned to mothball existing nuclear plants are now having second thoughts in the aftermath of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

[GPV]

1. I used to be dead set against nukes. Not anymore. I'm not in love with the idea, but these are

desperate times.

[NNadir]

2. Anyone who opposes nuclear power at this point is not...

...in my view, qualified to even discuss environmental issues.

I don't consider such people to even be "environmentalists" irrespective of how our "but her emails" media defines them.

People who oppose nuclear energy at this point are simply poorly educated and dogmatic fools, and I'm including people like the absurd asshole with a Ph.D from Cornell, Edward Lyman at the so called "Union of Concerned 'Scientists.'"

In the last 30 years of his insipid prattling hundreds of millions of people died from air pollution without a fraction of concern or a peep from this obsessive moron.

Selective attention is, in fact, inattention.

The fucking planet is on fire, and the reason is dangerous fossil fuel waste.