• DagwoodIII@piefed.social
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    Nuclear energy was subsidized to make atom bombs seem less threatening.

    If we’d spent as much on renewables and improving the power grid we’d have been off the fossil fuel addiction years ago.

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      Nuclear energy is both sustainable and safe. It was given a bad reputation by the fossil fuel industry to keep us buying oil.

      Well here we are. We could have eliminated the vast majority of fossil fuel use by the 1960s when solar and wind energy were in their infancy.

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        The exact same people run both the fossil fuel industry and nuclear power.

        They ‘compete’ the same way professional wrestlers do.