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#045 The Future of Nuclear Energy: Politics, Culture, and Technology with Mark Nelson

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The Environmental Movement and the Nuclear Accidents

Nuclear reactors were seen by the environmental movement as much worse than coal. Some environmentalists felt that concerns about carbon would just give the nuclear industry a reason to exist. So many of the organizations that are now very large and rich still fighting nuclear energy, they were fighting grid expansion for a very long time.

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