# How do you feel about nuclear power?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-feel-about-nuclear-power/792771>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [August 4, 2017, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-feel-about-nuclear-power/792771 "2017-08-04T14:05:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![Happy\_Fun\_Ball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_fun_ball/32/17664_2.png) [@Happy\_Fun\_Ball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Fun_Ball)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2017, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-feel-about-nuclear-power/792771/1 "2017-08-04T14:05:48Z")

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I was reading [this GD thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=797287) a few days ago about whether nuclear power is economical and I was a bit annoyed by the first line of the OP:

> [@Is nuclear power economical?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-nuclear-power-economical/758835/1):
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> I think I might be the only leftist who isn’t morally opposed to nuclear power. \<snip\>

I consider myself a centrist but I am sure many people would feel that the term leftist could fairly apply to me (especially in the current partisan political climate). Yet with my political leanings, I have supported nuclear power since the early 90s (the first time I thought about it). Reading the comments in that thread, it seemed to me that a lot of other self identified leftists also supported nuclear power. So to clear this up once and for all, I thought I would make a poll to see if **boffking** ’s stereotype is true, are leftists against nuclear power.

There is (or will soon be) a poll attached to the OP that uses the words “well regulated nuclear power”. For those of us who flinch at the word regulated (you know who you are), please assume that well regulated means “minimally but sufficiently regulated to protect the populace and workers from danger, but not overly regulated”. I really would rather avoid discussions or consideration of all the nimbyism and outdated regulations that surround the nuclear industry; this poll is meant to gauge peoples opinions in an ideal world.

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