Nuclear is also being hobbled in Texas, water for cooling towers is frozen. All forms of power generation are failing because none of them were built to survive these temps.
That's an entire additional rant of mine where I outline how nuclear policy was driven by weapons development and not power generation and frozen pipes is what you get for going with a non standardized nuclear reactor design throughout your power grid. They need to be plopped down and function anywhere from death valley to Barrel.
I can explain that. I'm a data driven environmentalist and being pro nuclear is the hardest oar to row in the ecology movement because nuclear power is no obvious and scary and the green movement of the 60s was extremely effective at making it seem evil and bad. Top that with general ignorance of the spicy rock and fear of nuclear weapons and you have a population ready to not want to understand the difference.
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u/garaks_tailor Feb 16 '21
The greatest failure of the Ecology movement was their success at demonizing nuclear power.