"Construction of the plant at Zwentendorf, Austria was finished but the plant never entered service. The start-up of the Zwentendorf plant, as well as the construction of the other 2 plants, was prevented by a referendum on 5 November 1978, in which a narrow majority of 50.47% voted against the start-up."
It seriously boggles my mind that the present environmental activists are celebrating the shuttering of nuclear power plants when they are mostly just being replaced by natural gas turbines (or fuel oil).
Like, yeah, solar and wind and hydro are great, but we also keep saying you can't build PV in the desert because it'll cool them down (Nevada), that solar thermal vaporizes birds (California), that wind mulches birds (California), and that hydro power consumes to much land and destroys river systems (name a state with big rivers).
Nuclear isn't nearly as harmful if you have recycling processes in place (recycling has been completely shuttered in the US) and don't build oversized reactors because of a regulatory failings that make many small reactors exponentially more expensive than a single massive one.
Nah, that would never happen.
"Construction of the plant at Zwentendorf, Austria was finished but the plant never entered service. The start-up of the Zwentendorf plant, as well as the construction of the other 2 plants, was prevented by a referendum on 5 November 1978, in which a narrow majority of 50.47% voted against the start-up."
[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zwentendorf_Nuclear_Power_Pl...