Maybe this is already widely understood on here, but I feel understanding how the anti-communist left was leveraged to fight nuclear energy.
As more people are reading this I wanted to share what I consider to be a superior analysis https://communistperspective.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-nuclear-debate-for-and-against.html
And to be clear, you can be pro-renewable without being anti-nuclear I am referring to many of the European Green parties that are anti-nuclear above all else. Nuclear has it’s drawbacks, but it is preferable to climate change, for now.
Nuclear energy is slow and expensive.
Slow to build.
Slow to turn on and off.
Their peak production will never exceed that of wind or solar and wind and solar power consumption combined just passed total nuclear power consumption last year.
By the end of the decade nuclear will be smaller than either than them for certain as nuclear power plants are slow to build.