Isaiah Taylor

Many years over budget, billions and billions of dollars over budget.

And so our only recent examples of building nuclear in the West are essentially failures.

It's all downstream of public perception.

We can talk about the regulators locking things down too much, which is absolutely true, especially when it comes to testing.

But the reason they did that is essentially responding to public sentiment.

So what drove public sentiment away from nuclear?

Well, I think it was a combination of like,

People naturally fear new things, the atomic bombs and the nuclear bombs sort of being associated with nuclear.

And then I think some really specific intentional propaganda.

I believe that rivals of the United States have continuously funded environmental groups to spread a narrative about nuclear and even to sue nuclear projects.

So I think there's a couple of sources.

Russia is known to be a source of this.

This is public record now that Russia, most recently, like in the last five years in Europe, funded far left environmental groups

to advocate for shutting down nuclear power in europe so that europe would become more dependent on russian natural gas wow this is just public record i did not know that yeah so i mean they they fell head over heels for the psyop um that nuclear was unsafe that it was not clean right this is sort of the this is the biggest scandal of environmental policy environmental advocacy uh in the last 50 years is that the the environmental um

The environmental groups in theory have good goals, right?

You want the earth to be clean.

You don't want to pollute it.

You want our kids to be able to live in beautiful places with nature.

And so on the surface, it's very easy to get people to get on board with that mission.

But nuclear energy is so obviously the best possible solution to clean power.