Because the government makes or breaks the commercial power industry, and we only have commercial nuclear power generation as a byproduct of weapons development

Because the government makes or breaks the commercial power industry, and we only have commercial nuclear power generation as a byproduct of weapons development, while environmental groups have been extremely successful using fear to make sure that new reactors are prohibitively expensive to build. I wonder what history will say about our environmental priorities. Will we be pilloried for doing more to harm the environment in a misguided attempt to save it?