Cory Doctorow on Nostr: This is the second nuclear renaissance - the last one, 20 years ago, was a bust, and ...
This is the second nuclear renaissance - the last one, 20 years ago, was a bust, and that was *before* renewables got cheap, reliable and easy to manufacture and deploy. You'll hear fairy-tales about how the early 2000s bust was caused by political headwinds, but that's simply untrue: there were almost no anti-nuke marches then, and governments were scrambling to figure out low-carbon alternatives to fossil fuels (this was before the latest round of fossil fuel sabotage).
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