{"id":101006,"date":"2023-04-29T17:14:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-29T21:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=101006"},"modified":"2023-05-05T15:02:21","modified_gmt":"2023-05-05T19:02:21","slug":"the-anti-nuclear-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/the-anti-nuclear-movement\/","title":{"rendered":"How the Anti-Nuclear Movement Hijacked the Narrative"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>How connected are nuclear energy and nuclear weapons? Does nuclear power imply nuclear fallout?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Award-winning science writer Michael Shellenberger says that nuclear power is the best way to meet rising energy demands. However, it&#8217;s hard to convince people of that because anti-nuclear propaganda has drastically clouded public opinion on the topic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more to learn how and why the anti-nuclear movement hijacked the narrative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-the-anti-nuclear-movement\">The Anti-Nuclear Movement<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Environmentalists haven&#8217;t always been against nuclear power. In the 1960s, it was seen as the obvious way to meet rising energy demands while preserving natural areas. Shellenberger writes that the shift began when <strong>some environmentalists deliberately conflated nuclear power with nuclear fallout<\/strong> to stop plants from being built on lands they wanted to conserve. This led activists who were against nuclear weapons to split their focus to include nuclear power. The idea that nuclear energy was as dangerous as nuclear fallout went viral among environmental groups in the 1970s. By now, it\u2019s been infused into environmental doctrine because of the efforts of the anti-nuclear movement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Shortform note: The tendency to lump nuclear energy with nuclear weapons <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/pundits-blog\/energy-environment\/333329-time-to-stop-confusing-nuclear-weapons-with-nuclear\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">continues to this day<\/a>. The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament claims that there are secret connections between <a href=\"https:\/\/cnduk.org\/resources\/links-nuclear-power-nuclear-weapons\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the commercial nuclear power industry and government military programs<\/a>. However, while <a href=\"https:\/\/alternativeenergy.procon.org\/questions\/does-expanding-nuclear-energy-contribute-to-the-proliferation-of-nuclear-weapons\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">nuclear power is a dual-use technology<\/a> that can both provide clean energy and produce fuel for weapons, in practice there has been no strong correlation between the presence of nuclear power plants and a country\u2019s capability to create atomic weapons.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The film and television industry has also played an important role in turning nuclear power into a boogeyman, with exploitative and inaccurate depictions that drum up the \u201cscare factor\u201d of nuclear energy. However, Shellenberger admits that the nuclear industry did itself no favors by retreating from the public debate and letting the media\u2019s misinformation go unchallenged. As a result, most of the world is phasing out nuclear power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Shortform note: Drumming up the \u201cscare factor\u201d isn\u2019t exclusive to nuclear energy. In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/app\/book\/bad-science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Bad Science<\/em><\/a>, Ben Goldacre highlights the ways that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/app\/book\/bad-science#section-three-bad-press\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">journalists distort scientific and technological claims in order to generate headlines<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/scientific-progress\/\">Scientific progress<\/a> is often slow and boring, so profit-driven news outlets have a financial <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/what-is-incentive-meaning-and-definition-economics\/\">incentive<\/a> to sensationalize the stories they report, even if it means exaggerating facts and minimizing nuance. As a result, reporters don\u2019t always properly vet their sources of information, and news publications <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/app\/book\/bad-science#rare-retractions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">rarely offer retractions<\/a> for stories later shown to be misleading. Once bad information becomes part of the public narrative, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/app\/article\/why-wed-rather-stick-with-bad-information-shortform-explainers-shortform\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">it can be fiendishly difficult to debunk<\/a>.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, abandoning the nuclear option has its cost. Deaths and illnesses from air pollution caused by the burning of fossil fuel continue, and in some parts of the world, more forests are being cleared to make firewood for heating and cooking in homes. The rising output of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/problems-with-renewable-energy\/\">solar and wind<\/a> power have not been enough to offset the loss of nuclear energy, and in places where nuclear plants have closed down, the price of electricity has only increased, placing a greater economic burden on people\u2019s lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>The Promise of Nuclear Fusion<\/strong><br><br>It may be that nuclear fission\u2019s public perception can never be redeemed. However, there\u2019s another nuclear possibility that lacks fission\u2019s negative associations\u2014that of nuclear fusion. Instead of drawing power from radioactive uranium, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.energy.gov\/science\/doe-explainsnuclear-fusion-reactions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">fusion creates energy by smashing together hydrogen atoms<\/a> (the most common element in the universe). This same process powers the sun, and instead of producing radioactive waste, the byproduct of hydrogen fusion is helium (the second most common element).<br><br>The trouble is that sustained nuclear fission is much easier to achieve than fusion, which requires <a href=\"https:\/\/world-nuclear.org\/information-library\/current-and-future-generation\/nuclear-fusion-power.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">duplicating the pressure and temperature that exists in the heart of a star<\/a>. Research progresses, as was highlighted by a breakthrough at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.llnl.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories<\/a> where for the first time, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/12\/13\/science\/nuclear-fusion-energy-breakthrough.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">scientists produced a fusion reaction that released more energy than it took to ignite<\/a>. However, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/12\/12\/us\/common-questions-nuclear-fusion-climate\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a workable fusion reactor is probably still decades away<\/a>, leaving fission as our only nuclear stopgap until <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/app\/article\/fusion-breakthrough-may-take-decades-to-pay-off-shortform-explainers-shortform\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">practical fusion is fully realized<\/a>.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How connected are nuclear energy and nuclear weapons? Does nuclear power imply nuclear fallout? Award-winning science writer Michael Shellenberger says that nuclear power is the best way to meet rising energy demands. However, it&#8217;s hard to convince people of that because anti-nuclear propaganda has drastically clouded public opinion on the topic. 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