"Even if nuclear power were clean, safe, economic, assured of ample fuel, and socially benign,” said the god head of renewables, Amory Lovins, in 1977, “it woul

"Even if nuclear power were clean, safe, economic, assured of ample fuel, and socially benign,” said the god head of renewables, Amory Lovins, in 1977, “it would still be unattractive because of the political implications of the kind of energy economy it would lock us into." Namely, the status quo. Cheaper energy will tend to pacify the masses. If you want big changes to the power structure, pacific masses are a bug. And ecologically, wealthier people with time on their hands playing with their nuclear powered electric ATVs and boats and whatnot will occupy and damage more ecosystems. They'll consume more of all sorts of resources. The increase in human energy use by itself, clean or not, works against many popular ecological and political goals.