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Western climate activists have ngo brain and must plead fealty to dirty old hippies.
The question why is China, a country run more by engineers then lawyers is relatively cool on nuclear as compared to renewables when energy security is so critical now?
I get they are reinventing le epic thorium reactors or fusion. But they are nascent. Low risk PWR Nuclear is still really shit at scaling. You need very specific sites where people know they can extract as much money out of the project in objections and protests. Projects are too big to fail which become grounds for every stakeholder to bleed funds out of project and gain political power.
Not to say geography isn’t an issue with renewables but the moral hazards you have to absorb are so much more dispersed and don’t depend on water in vast quantities.