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I have a tinfoil hat theory that all of this environmental and safety regulation was amplified heavily by lobbying and/or propaganda efforts from the coal compa
by Lramseyer 3y ago
I have a tinfoil hat theory that all of this environmental and safety regulation was amplified heavily by lobbying and/or propaganda efforts from the coal companies. On one hand, you can make the argument that nuclear fuel was the new silent invisible killer on the block (as opposed to coal mining and emissions which were known, but accepted since it had been around for decades) But when I read stuff like this, it seems as if regulation was heavily disproportionately applied to nuclear energy even despite it being a new and unfamiliar danger. Or maybe the coal industry simply was more successful at curbing regulation. After all, it was was a more mature industry financially and politically.
My theory might be speculative and totally off the mark. But when you compare deaths per TWh of energy produced, coal is responsible for almost 3 orders of magnitude more deaths than nuclear. So maybe the real question is "how has coal power stayed so cheap?" or "if we tried to make coal power as safe as nuclear, what would it cost?"
- koheripbal 3y agoRussian influence operations as well. It is well documented
- baybal2 3y ago[dead]
- wolfram74 3y agoI mean, with the history[0] of petro companies funding anti nuclear groups, it's not a very out there conspiracy theory. [0]https://www.forbes.com/sites/kensilverstein/2016/07/13/are-fossil-fuel-interests-bankrolling-the-anti-nuclear-energy-movement/?sh=3bb394a57453 https://www.forbes.com/sites/kensilverstein/2016/07/13/are-f...
- fsflover 3y agoA couple more links: https://www.ans.org/news/article-1392/robert-anderson-antinuclear-financier https://www.ans.org/news/article-1392/robert-anderson-antinu... https://thebreakthrough.org/blog/the-true-face-of-the-anti-nuclear-movement https://thebreakthrough.org/blog/the-true-face-of-the-anti-n...
- thrawa8387336 3y agoGreenpeace was started with the standard oil money...
- koheripbal 3y agoAnd then supported by Russia
- fsflover 3y agoLinks?
- cal85 3y agoNot sure if you’re being entirely serious but is there any truth in that? Just curious.
- Elyra 3y agoI couldn't find anything for Greenpeace, but I did find Friends of the Earth (which like Greenpeace, also split from Sierra Club), was split off "because of the [Sierra Club's] positive approach to nuclear energy. The founding donation of $500,000 (in 2019 USD) was provided by Robert Orville Anderson, the owner of Atlantic Richfield oil company." [1, 2, 3] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friends_of_the_Earth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friends_of_the_Earth [2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2019/03/28/the-dirty-secret-of-renewables-advocates-is-that-they-protect-fossil-fuel-interests-not-the-climate/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2019/03/28... [3] https://atomicinsights.com/smoking-gun-robert-anderson/ https://atomicinsights.com/smoking-gun-robert-anderson/
- mkoubaa 3y ago"Save the trees" used to mean "use more plastic"
- IAmNotAFix 3y agoWorking with QA analysts has shown me that quality people are totally autonomous in adding disproportionate hurdles to the way of production without needing the help of any external lobbying. It's very simple: the only way to 100% prevent an incident is the absence of production at all. If your incentive is to avoid incidents at all cost, you are incentivized to prevent production entirely.