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NNadir

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12. This may come as a surprise to antinukes...
Tue May 26, 2026, 10:09 AM
21 hrs ago

...who clearly couldn't care less about the use of fossil fuels, but unlike them, my support for nuclear energy is tightly tied to my belief that the use of any fossil fuel for any purpose is unacceptable.

The Germans burn gas and coal, more of it, because they shut their nuclear plants.

The French don't need gas; they don't need coal. They export electricity to prevent their neighbors from killing people with fossil fuel waste dumped into the atmosphere.

I have never met an antinuke anywhere at any time who understands that the only path to phasing out fossil fuels which are literally causing the atmosphere's collapse, goes through nuclear energy.

By the way, the price of electricity in France is much lower than that of Germany. So much for the delusional "Nuclear is too expensive and so called "renewable energy" is cheap.

The real cost of the useless solar and wind industries is their dependence of fossil fuels, and most of that cost is external, in lives lost to air pollution and the economic cost of the destruction of the climate system.

Got it?

No?

Why am I not surprised?

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