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When I first went to college I was a nuclear engineering major at a pretty good school. The climate loonies were everywhere, predicting the global warming apocalypse, but not one would support nuclear power as an alternative to fossil fuels. Between that, and the devastation wreaked on the nuclear power industry by the policies of Jimmy Carter, I didn't see much of a future for nuclear energy, so I switched to computer science.

To this day I believe that groups like the Clamshell Alliance (who litigated the cost of Seabrook to triple what it was projected to cost, and we in NH are still paying for it) were just fronts for the Soviets waging economic warfare on us through their useful idiots. Since the fall of the Soviet Union, many of these types of groups - and many of the violent terrorist groups of the same era - have disappeared or negotiated a peace settlement. I suspect that the ones that are left were taken over by the Chinese.

In any case, I have no tolerance for the back-to-the-caves crowd.

The number one test to see if any environmentalist is capable of reasoning is to suggest that nuclear power could serve as the grid back up for a power system sustained by wind and solar in the day. As you say, there have been no takers. And why? Well, mankind is not capable of building a nuclear power reactor that is fail safe so therefore we must build batteries that last all night and put them on every house along with the solar panel. But it will never happen, too expensive. and the grid will still need back up.

“To this day I believe that groups like the Clamshell Alliance (who litigated the cost of Seabrook to triple what it was projected to cost, and we in NH are still paying for it) were just fronts for the Soviets waging economic warfare on us through their useful idiots. ”

See the Venona Papers.