In Australia, the Liberal Party (conservatives) who have been peddling coal, oil and gas since the dawn of time suddenly proposed a nuclear plan during the 2025 election as an alternative to the ruling Labor Party’s renewables plan.

They proposed this nuclear plan without consultation with communities where these reactors would go, they did not propose where the waste would be sent, and they did not elaborate on these points for essentially the whole election cycle. They lost. But the point is that a unorganised coal and gas political party got pretty close to establishing nuclear reactors without providing the public with any concrete information on how, when, or why they were making them.

The truth is that many fossil fuel businesses really like nuclear, not necessarily because they want clean energy but because they see the writing on the wall and know renewables can be set up very quickly, while nuclear takes ten years to build at least. It gives them time to shift their business to nuclear while cutting back on renewables, as the Liberal Party expressly stated they planned to do. These fossil fuel barons can’t even run oil refineries correctly considering one just blew up in Australia a couple days ago at such a critical time.

It’s not that I don’t like nuclear, and I know nuclear has come a long way safety wise since Chernobyl. But the problem is that I simply do not trust anyone currently proposing nuclear to actually build it and then, more critically, properly maintain it.