The United States once built more than 100 nuclear reactors in 25 years while providing one of the lowest electricity prices in the industrial world.
More than 90 of those reactors still are serving, saving human lives from air pollution and even more extreme global heating we are now experiencing on a burning planet.
The the nuclear manufacturing infrastructure that built these reactors, in a time when the most powerful computers in the world were weaker than a child's laptop, was deliberately vandalized by appeal to ignorance.
The Vogtle reactors will be operating at the dawn of the 22nd century, should humanity survive the success of rising ignorance having nothing to do with nuclear energy other than a feature of opposition to it. By that time every wind turbine on the planet will have been landfill for more than half a century, a vast material liability dumped on future generations along with a destroyed atmosphere, depletion of the world's best ores, and the industrialization of irreplaceable wilderness for a stupid affectation that wind and solar are "green." They are no such thing. They entrenched fossil fuels. The antinuke assholes in Germany are burning coal.
The assinine and dishonest rhetoric claiming that so called "renewable energy" is "cheap" usually stated by clueless bourgoisie conveniently relies on ignoring the internal and external costs of redundancy, almost exclusively provided by dangerous fossil fuels, the waste of which is dumped, with minimal and ineffective treatment, directly into the planetary atmosphere, where it is destroying it.
I often refer to antinukes, who worked tirelessly to destroy nuclear manufacturing because they are not too bright nor well educated, as "arsonists complaining about forest fires." Given that the planet is now literally in flames owing to their successful appeals to fear and ignorance, the metaphor is especially apt.
Every nuclear powerplant built on this planet is a gift to future generations. This includes the more than 50 built in China, where nuclear manufacturing functions at a high level, in this century.
The fact that antinukes don't give a flying fuck about future generations, that they are unwilling to spend a dime to leave them a legacy of functioning infrastructure, rings true through every disgusting penny pinching argument that "nuclear is too expensive" line of more crap handed out like a very toxic, rote and nonsensical chant. "Too expensive" for whom? The future generations required to live on our garbage? The inherently immoral chant disgusts me in the deepest part of my cynical and dying soul.
There is nothing of a sense of decency left on this planet. Ignorance is transcendent now; the cult of antinukism being the tip of the iceberg.
History will not forgive us, nor should it.
Have a nice weekend in the collapsing United States.
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