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  1. Let’s hope so.

    Unfortunately, the German and Austrian Green Parties will likely “lawyer up” the system with every legal trick in the book. That and the anti-green sycophants will probably block any waste proposals, using big media events where they lay their bodies on the road and obstruct traffic. Makes for good TV. Maybe Ms. Thunberg will attend.

  2. My previous comments were more for the recent addition of nuclear as a “green” technology in Europe. The established environmental groups there are having a cow.

    In regards to this article, I should have said that the NRDC, FOE, Greenpeace, and the Sierra Club will lawyer up. Especially in NY.

  3. Go gently with our allies please. Greta Thunberg does not speak against nuclear. Her calls have been simply for “Action”, leaving it up to older generation to identify and execute appropriate actions to rescue the climate. The calls lay out a challenge that you and I know can best be met by converting the world’s power needs to nuclear. But it is up to our generation, not the next, to get that conversion underway as soon as possible. Today’s youngsters will be judging our performance along the way.

  4. Understood, however, “our” generation tried and has been repeatedly blocked. Even Nuscale with its small light water reactor seems to be stuck in a stasis field. I realize these things go excruciatingly slow, but it’s difficult knowing how much bad press there is. It seems Nuscale should already be grading the Idaho property and fabricating the initial reactor vessels. Perhaps they are. I don’t have access to that information.

    I certainly applaud the Rod Adams of the world for their patience and positive messaging of nuclear technology.

  5. Roger Clifton writes:
    “Go gently with our allies please. Greta Thunberg does not speak
    against nuclear. Her calls have been simply for ‘Action’, leaving
    it up to older generation to identify and execute appropriate
    actions to rescue the climate. ”

    Actually, AFAICT she has spoken clearly against nuclear.

    Source: The Guardian, 21 Dec 2021
    Article: “Activists including Greta Thunberg criticise ‘fake climate action’ in response to planned investment taxonomy”
    URL: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/21/eu-in-row-over-inclusion-of-gas-and-nuclear-in-sustainability-guidance
    Quote:
    “However, the growing expectation of a Franco-German bargain that brings gas and nuclear into the taxonomy has triggered an excoriating response from Thunberg and nine fellow climate activists….’There is no space for cowardly decisions, like allowing for this fake climate action,’ they wrote, citing the taxonomy.”

    Rather than descending into this name-calling melee, I would politely
    suggest that if Ms. Thunburg does not do her chemistry and physics
    homework before writing in an open letter, she should do so.

    And, earlier in the same article (note the date 1 month ago)
    I noticed this:

    “An EU official said gas and nuclear were likely to have “amber” status, meaning they would not be in the “green” category with wind and solar power, but would feature in the taxonomy.”

    AFAICT, the notion of an “amber” status did not make it into the final
    draft of the document, so apparently the nuclear-tolerant faction was
    forced to accept the ambiguous and loaded “green” label, or face
    exclusion from the taxonomy.

    So, actually I’m fine with Ms. Thunburg’s statement, because it tells
    us exactly where she stands with respect to nuclear energy.

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