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4. Anyone who is familiar with anything I write here...

...will recognize that for purely environmental reasons, I am a pro-nuclear as anyone could possibly be.

In fact, I frequently state my opinion, built over 30 years of intense review of the science, that nuclear energy is the only practical technology that can do anything reasonable to save what is left and not yet destroyed.

I recognize that the refusal to be educated exists, as much as I hate to say it, on the left as much as on the right.

As a life long Democrat, I feel about the rote anti-nuke members of our party, much as a pre-Trump Republican scientist whose politics focused on a belief in libertarian small government might have felt about creationists, as something as an embarrassment to be tolerated.

I'm actually not all that tolerant, but, over the years here, I've learned to avail myself of the "ignore" button for the dumbest and most egregious anti-nukes.

As I frequently point out, one of America's most prominent climate scientists has pointed out that opposition to nuclear power is - although he certainly didn't use the word - obscene.

Prevented Mortality and Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Historical and Projected Nuclear Power (Pushker A. Kharecha* and James E. Hansen Environ. Sci. Technol., 2013, 47 (9), pp 4889–4895)

The point is that opposition to nuclear power kills people.

Who is Sheldon Cooper?

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