Nuclear energy was introduced to the world in a violent fashion. The A-bombs dropped on Japan to end WWII were the most violent and destructive event known to humankind at the time. The USA developed that destructive force.
Following WWII the USA put the fission of the atom into peaceful uses by developing nuclear reactors that produced clean energy. Then Three Mile Island happened. This event spelled the end of nuclear power generation in the USA. It should not have. Three Mile Island was a bad accident but all the safety systems designed into the plant operated and no life was lost and the environment was not damaged.
As a result though all nuclear plants currently under construction and all those on the drawing boards were ordered by the Atomic Energy Commission to be modified with layers of unnecessary redundant safety systems that increased the cost of the plants to the extent that they were no longer viable.
The people responsible for these decisions were wrong then, and that same thinking today is wrong about CO2 being a detriment to our environment. It isn’t about electric power, it is about political power and control of the masses.
“Three Mile Island was a bad accident but all the safety systems designed into the plant operated and no life was lost and the environment was not damaged.”
Look at all the EVs which have exploded/ caught fire, homes burned and people injured or killed from those lithium-ion nutbag “vehicles”. Much worse than TMI.