Rejection of nuclear power wasn&#x27;t down to Greens or CND types. They don&#x27;t wield that kind of political power, especially in the major nuclear states where most reactor development was&#x2F;is happening (USA, Russia, China, UK, France, Japan). Politicians stopped building nuclear power plants because it&#x27;s expensive (zomg DEBT) and locally unpopular and didn&#x27;t fit in with the ideology of either centre right or 3rd way centre left parties of the last 30 years in most western countries (i.e. it&#x27;s centralised, heavily regulated and heavily state subsidised).<p>It&#x27;s tragic that development stalled, but blaming some of the people who are most sympathetic to the nuclear power argument in the modern debate isn&#x27;t really productive.