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What do you mean by political? It is not a major issue for either party, candidates almost never bring it up. It’s not political, it’s unpopular broadly.

• NineStarPoint 3y ago
  Not all politcs problems are one side against the other, sometimes a political problem does mean “this is a good idea, but too generally unpopular to be implemented”. For nuclear it’s also a local politics problem, not national problem generally: people don’t have an issue with nuclear in general, but they do have strong opposition for it being built near where they live.
  • hef19898 3y ago
    Nuclear power is mainly an economical problem, meaning it is too expensive to be viable.
    • lokar 3y ago
      I think the economics are why you don't see industry pushing it. If they thought it was an easy route to lots of $, they would start pushing it (and against the anti-nuke movement).
• LewisVerstappen 3y ago
  > It is not a major issue for either party, candidates almost never bring it up Uhh yeah? Because it's been dead since the 1990s? You can look at a graph of new nuclear power platnts and see it curtail off after a peak in the 90s. > It’s not political, it’s unpopular broadly. When it was a major political issue, the anti-nuclear advocates were almost entirely on the left. It was seen as part of the environmental movement (which has been left-leaning).