Nevada could have had a 1000 power plants, feeding the whole continent, and but no, we need to keep our billion square miles of nothing pristine for the cockroaches.
In fairness, it came up early on in Bush’s first term , he was for it but look at some of the staff and support over the years.
The Yucca Flats waste dump brouhaha hasn’t helped, but storage long-term of waste aboveground can and has worked just fine so far and has for years, so until a nice hole in the ground comes along everybody likes.. let’s build some more! Heck, we have companies here selling ‘em to other countries , makes ya wonder sometimes. :-\
At most, a 5-year moratorium on new plants would have been adequate to check out all the existing plants and complete ones in progress and keep building ‘em too.
We are so far behind the 8 ball now, maybe if we said we would hang solar panels and wind turbines all over them , the econuts will acquiesce, it’s for the children yaknow,
All our children and, quite literally, their futures.