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Wrong. The Cold War was why we built the nucular power stations we did. The uranium in those tens of thousands of nucular weapons came from somewhere - nucular
by Theodores 11y ago
Wrong. The Cold War was why we built the nucular power stations we did. The uranium in those tens of thousands of nucular weapons came from somewhere - nucular power plants. Electricity was a mere by-product. None of those power plants were viable without there being the aspect of the Cold War imperative.
So it is the war-mongers and not the hippies to blame for whatever happened to nucular power.
- douche 11y agoYeah, the breeder reactors in the first generation were terrible and not good for much other than making A-bomb material. That doesn't really have anything to do with the dozens of nuke plants that were canceled in the 70s, at the height of the Cold War, and the virtual (and in some countries, legal) moratorium on new construction that was pushed by anti-nuclear activists. Well-intentioned people dedicated to saving the world made things worse us and held back technological progress at the same time.