The nuclear lobby would have you believe that atom-splitting reactors are our shining salvation—clean, safe, and ready to save the world from itself. But don’t be fooled. This is the same game they’ve been running since Oppenheimer turned sand to glass. Nuclear energy is dirty, dangerous, and eye-wateringly expensive. This isn’t progress; it’s a poisoned inheritance.
Let’s get real: this radioactive alchemy has no place in a logical, sustainable future. Just because you can’t see the pollution doesn’t mean it’s not there, swirling unseen in the water, the soil, and the lungs of the poor folks who had the misfortune to be born in the wrong zip code. Nuclear energy is a ticking time bomb wrapped in a trillion-dollar price tag, bleeding everyone dry. Publicly owned renewable energy, on the other hand, offers a way forward: clean, economically sound, without the omnipresent threat of a nuclear mushroom cloud over our cities.
Greenpeace once took on nuclear arms testing in '71 and has been railing against this nuclear madness for decades. From Chernobyl’s radioactive ghost towns to Fukushima’s toxic wastelands, these disasters aren’t footnotes—they’re flashing red warnings of the path nuclear zealotry leads us down.
Nuclear zealotry demonstrated by the board of directors at Microsoft to reboot Three Mile Island to satisfy the voracious energy appetites of artificial intelligence (AI) used presently in every mode of modern life by the 1%, both relentlessly surveilling us while dictating our access to every needed resource.
The tech bros embracing the “clean energy” of nuclear power are the targeted fools of this latest trick of imperialism and capitalism. The American Nuclear Society, working diligently to cram nuclear down the throats of all on this planet since 1954, is now targeting the deluded energy dilettantes of the tech world. Why? Once the reactors are again working at total capacity, it is only a soft edit to funnel nuclear energy into every home. Not only endangering all, but forcing us to pay for the pleasure of toxic waste seeping into our microplastic cluttered biomes. The current long nuclear energy game is to destroy all life on Earth.
Lucky for you, our comrade activists: nuclear power is as slow and clunky as a bureaucrat with two left feet. It costs a fortune and takes a decade to set up one of these behemoths, while renewables are out there every day pumping out megawatts without the apocalyptic risks.
And when these reactors go bad, they go spectacularly bad. Entire regions were poisoned, and people were forced to flee their homes, many of them for good. Fukushima, Chernobyl—if history is any guide, we’re on track for a meltdown every decade or so. Imagine that as the cost of keeping the lights on. Oh, and the radioactive waste? Good luck with that. There’s no safe, foolproof way to deal with it—only vaults and dump sites that leak like cracked buckets, with Yucca Mountain, the nation’s designated nuclear graveyard, squatting on a seismically and volcanically active fault.
Beyond meltdowns and waste, every reactor is a gateway, a potential pipeline to weaponization, lurking like a loaded gun on a hair trigger.
Financially, new nuclear projects are a horror show. The most recent new reactor was birthed a billion dollars over budget and years behind schedule. The suits on Wall Street call it a “bet the farm” risk, and they’re right. Fukushima’s cleanup alone is projected to cost over $100 billion. Imagine what that money could have done invested in wind, in solar, in the real energy of the future.
It’s time to get our heads on straight. Stop pouring money into new nukes. Start shutting down the ones we already have. Channel our resources into renewables, the only logical choice for a world that wants to keep spinning without incinerating itself.