Comment Re:Politics of radioactive waste (Score 1) 105
It appears you missed the part about politics interfering with efforts to deal with radioactive waste. We've had a major political party that was openly opposed to nuclear power in any form from 1972 to 2020.
Sigh. Learn some history. There are people here who actually were around then.
No, the Democrats were not "openly opposed to nuclear power in any form" in 1972. Jimmy Carter was supportive of nuclear power. The anti-nuclear movement hadn't coalesced yet, and the Greens were mostly busy protesting whaling.
The Three-mile island event (at nearly the same time as the movie "The China Syndrome") changed the attitude toward nuclear power, but that was at the very end of Carter's presidency, and it was Reagan that had to deal with the change. If you want to name the party that killed nuclear power in the US... it was the Republicans. There were zero approved permits for new nuclear plant constructions during the entire 12 year Reagan and Bush (I) administrations. I will blame the after effects of Three-mile island, but it was the Republicans, not the Democrats, who dropped the ball.
They opposed any means of proper disposal of radioactive waste, preferring instead to use the piles of spent fuel at nuclear power plants
As did the Republicans.
as a means to stoke fear in the public of nuclear power.
Your speculation about motives is utter nonsense.
Even if you accept Forbes as an accurate source, that article only says that support of nuclear power was not in the Democratic Party's published platform after 1972. That's a far cry from saying that they were "openly opposed."
Even though the Democrats have it on paper that they support nuclear power,
Wait, what? You just finished saying that they were "openly opposed to nuclear power in any form". Now you're saying that they were openly supporting nuclear power. You can't even keep your story stright for two paragraphs.