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SarahD

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Sat Jun 22, 2024, 01:36 PM Jun 2024

Nuke promotional puff pieces swamping the "news." [View all]

If you haven't noticed, the media are inundated by propaganda from the nuclear power industry. Most of it is completely over the top, full of pollyanna predictions about how nukes will save us from carbon. The interesting thing is, there is big emphasis on how this is all privately financed, with details about government subsidies buried in the last paragraph. This is what I keep telling people. It's going to be expensive. Electric rate payers will see big monthly bills and our taxes will be channeled to private nukes. Don't bother suggesting we back out. Too late. The propaganda war was a huge success for the nuke industry, and the public now accepts that we must build many, many nukes to maintain our excessive lifestyle.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/why-nuscale-power-stock-soaring-205132005.html

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