I am personally bullish on nuclear power, especially gen 3+ reactors. I also think that nuclear advocates really shoot themselves in the foot when they say thi

I am personally bullish on nuclear power, especially gen 3+ reactors. I also think that nuclear advocates really shoot themselves in the foot when they say things like "it's just people being worried about scaremongering." It's true that many people over-rate the risk of health impacts and there is a real history of facilities becoming burdens for their sited communities. They become burdens both because of overblown fear and industry incompetence and poor lifecycle planning, but the history is real. You don't have to believe any FUD about nuclear disasters to see the graveyards of plants that were not financially sustainable. I get that you need to use different tools to solve public perception problems, but they can sink an engineering project just like technical problems and I think we need to grapple with that reality if we want nuclear power to be at the center of our climate solution.