Colorado Newsline once again grabbed its fear-mongering tambourine and danced to the tired old tune of anti-nuclear hysteria. Their latest hit piece rails against Colorado’s House Bill 25-1040, which would finally let nuclear energy count as a “clean” resource in this state’s green energy fantasy land. The article is written with all the scientific rigor of a TikTok conspiracy rant—likely by an intern who thinks Chernobyl is a how-to manual.
The Bullet Point Brief
- Newsline’s coverage treats nuclear power like it’s still 1979 and Jane Fonda’s about to shut down Fort St. Vrain, China Syndrome-like.
- They ignore that modern nuclear reactors are light-years ahead—cleaner, safer, more efficient—and currently powering U.S. Navy ships without issue.
- The cost Colorado Newsline laments? The largest cost in nuclear is regulatory. So, cut the governmental red tape, cut the expense.
- When your entire electrification plan includes windmills and fairytales but not nuclear, you’re planning for blackout bingo.
- Oh, and Fort St. Vrain? An experimental reactor from the Nixon era—that’s like judging today’s smartphones by looking at a rotary dial.
My Bottom Line
Let me say it real clear for the enviro-alarmists in the cheap seats: if you want to push an “electrify everything” agenda—including cars, homes, factories, toilets, and probably your emotional support blender—then nuclear needs to be on the table. Hell, it should BE the table. Modern-day reactors are nothing like what they were in the ‘70s when folks still thought disco was revolutionary. We’re talking highly efficient systems producing massive amounts of power with minimal waste—and without belching smoke or needing child-and-diesel-mined cobalt.
And trust me on this—I grew up six miles from Fort St. Vrain. It’s still standing. So am I.
While China builds power plants harder and faster than we build Starbucks drive-thrus (they added about 100GW of new coal capacity in 2023 alone), we’re stuck throwing taxpayer money at windmills like they’re magic beans. We can’t run AI data centers and clean hydrogen facilities with unicorn dust and hashtags—we need real freakin’ energy. Nuclear is clean. It’s scalable. It works without subsidies—which scares all the climate grifters because it exposes just how hollow their green gospel really is.
The only thing dangerous about modern nuclear energy is how misinformed our media—and our government—still are about it.
