The claim was that anti-nuclear sentiment was the sole reason for the current climate crisis. The fact of the matter is that cheap oil and extensive lobbying b

The claim was that anti-nuclear sentiment was the sole reason for the current climate crisis. The fact of the matter is that cheap oil and extensive lobbying by the fossil fuel industry is by far the major cause of the current climate crisis, and stationary nuclear power plants would not have significantly contributed to a reduction in emissions. Similarly, the economics of naval nuclear power were disproven by at least one attempt at running a commercial vessel on nuclear power. There are uses for nuclear powered civilian vessels (ice breakers, supply ships operating in sensitive environments) just not in the merchant fleet. The US ship “Savannah” was an economic failure for many reasons, the apologists will claim it was because Savannah was a breakbulk ship built just before the market moved to container ships, but it was also just expensive to build and operate. Savannah was designed as a PR piece, not a serious commercial operation. If we want to encourage a nuclear merchant fleet we need to put a price on carbon (and other air) pollution so that bunker oil is no longer commercially viable.