> One question I regularly keep asking here, who made us doubt nuclear. Are all green parties funded by Big oil. I've posted this before in response to this co

> One question I regularly keep asking here, who made us doubt nuclear. Are all green parties funded by Big oil. I've posted this before in response to this conspiracy, but I have to ask. In the US, why do people think the environmental movement had anything to do with stopping nuclear? The environmental movement, though hardly a monolithic group, was unable to stop the expansion of coal, fracking, offshore drilling, or so many pipelines from the fossil fuel industry over the past half century. It's clear when money was on the table, the fossil fuel industry won time and time again. So if nuclear were such an attractive and cost-effective option, how was an entire industry, led by some of the biggest companies in the world, derailed by a movement that's never had much national political power? The simpler answer to me is that it either * building multi-billion dollar nuclear power plants is not as safe or cost effective as proponents make it out to be. * actual powerful players like big gas and oil saw a threat and crushed it like every other big industry, through captured politicians crafting favorable regulation