Nope, can't agree with that. Small modular nuclear fission reactors are FINALLY breaking the various logjams that have limited nuclear, especially the molten-salt thorium reactor by Copenhagen Atomics. Dow Chemical is planning small modular gas-cooled reactors for one of their Texas production facilities to provide electricity and process heat.
They are planning it. Planning. I did NOT say there was no development and test bed development.
And planning without implementation is, in the end, no implementation.
I am fully on board with nuclear power. I have training with isotopes and nuclear processes. I am not “an expert”, but I have enough knowledge to understand the technology, speak conversantly on it, and make appropriate risk anylyses. This is what we might call “rational discourse”.
But the people opposing these technologies are not interested in “rational discourse”. They are interested in Gaia and unicorn farts like solar and wind.
I think the building of prototypes is one thing, clearing the environmentalist hurdles (and new hurdles will be created apace to further block development, not only with plants, with mining permits, you name it.
All the leftists hear is “nuclear” and they immediately shut down the conversation.