all need to be decommissioned at some point, because they will fail catastrophically if they don't.
This is false, that idea comes from decades of anti-science fearmongering. They need to be decommissioned for the same reasons as everything else, they just become too expensive to maintain. Same as every other energy source, including renewables.
That's very well put. People tend to cling to the ideas of silver bullets, and that's, more often than not, detrimental to climate goals and tends to just slow things down.
Nuclear subidies aren't even in the same order of magnitude as fossil fuel subsidies. There's so much fearmongering in that comment I don't even know where to start... Chernobyl really was the best thing to happen to the fossil fuel lobby.
go look at the history of nuclear power research and development
My friend, I went to university for this shit.
I mean, those are power companies. If you're calling public power companies "the oil and gas billionaires" then you're clearly being facetious.
When people talk about the oil and gas billionaires they are referring to the ones who spend millions on lobbying, Exxon, Shell, BP, Aramco, etc. You know, the ones funding climate change denial and nuclear fearmongering for decades.
They shouldn't, but many do and have done for many years out of ignorance.
This was a great opportunity to quote Douglas Adams! :)
"This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."
Nothing lasts forever, that's true. But it's not the incisive observation one might think. NPPs are some of the power sources with the longest service lives.
Why does it need to be astroturfing? It's the same point the young climate activist in the article is making.
I was replying to your reply of the other comment.
Was just trying to figure out the other comment's logic. They may have watched one too many Simpsons episodes.
Yes.
No. This is the fearmongering part. A nuclear plant that is past its service life doesn't just turn into Chernobyl.
I don't know what article you're talking about, but I'm pretty sure it won't trump my years of university education on this.