Comment Re:TL;DR version (Score 1) 136
It's facing power hungry well financed "green" anti-nuclear lobby, financed by coal and oil, which are loving the Fukushima by the way, they likely paid for most of the lobby financing done in last century just on last two year buildup in Japan and Germany alone.
Hm... well I like a good conspiracy theory, myself, but I was going to caution you that toning this one down would probably help The Cause more, but actually this is the mirror-image of the kind of reasoning that lefties like to use, where money automatically implies corruption... it'd be interesting to see how they respond to this one.
But really, I think that many of the big corporations involved don't really care that much... they don't really specialize in one form of energy, and if you'd rather they make money on nuclear than coal or oil, I doubt they care that much. (On the other hand, "clean coal" is clearly a PR-campaign pipe-dream, if you ask me, so maybe I'm over-simplifying.)
As I understand it, there is a long-standing problem that results from this: the obvious defense of nuclear is that it's way better than coal, but the utility companies refuse to make that argument, because they don't want people taking aim at their coal plants.