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Nuclear power is the unsung hero in the energy game. While everyone’s busy singing praises for solar power, nuclear energy is quietly powering ahead as the heavyweight champion of clean energy. Why? Well, for starters, nuclear power plants are incredibly efficient. They produce massive amounts of electricity around the clock, rain or shine, which solar panels can only dream of on their best days. Plus, nuclear energy is surprisingly safe and clean, with zero emissions during operation, making it a realistic and key player in tackling climate issues. So, while solar energy basks in the limelight, it’s nuclear power that’s truly pulling the weight behind the scenes. This begs the question: What’s holding us back from going all-in on nuclear? The surprising answer boils down to just one word: women.

A new Morning Consult poll spills the beans on what’s really going on: it turns out it’s women who put the kibosh on efficient, clean energy that the left constantly harps on about.

How’s that for a dose of grade-A irony?

The left-wing rag Vox covered this story in their usual “progressive bubble” style, completely failing to see beyond their own biases or even consider the glaringly obvious facts that were right in front of their faces.

Vox:

This is not unexpected at all: polls and surveys have consistently found a wide gender gap on nuclear power, going all the way back to the 1970s. Though overall public support for nuclear waxes and wanes, the gender gap stays steady. Said Gallup in 2012:

Men and women have sharply different attitudes about nuclear power, differences that are larger than those found between partisan, ideological, age, and educational segments of the population. Men favor nuclear power as a source of electricity by a 72% to 27% margin. But 51% of women oppose it, with 42% in favor. The same large gender gap exists in terms of views of the safety of nuclear power plants.

Other surveys have found slightly different numbers, but almost always a spread in the 20- to 40-point range.

This question has been of intermittent interest to researchers for decades, but only recently have they begun honing in on a plausible answer.

Is it because women are less familiar with nuclear energy? Probably, yes. But naturally, Vox won’t admit that:

Many nuclear advocates, confronted by the gender gap, posit a simple explanation: women know less about nuclear power. After all, the science and engineering fields generally, and the nuclear industry specifically, are dominated by men. Women are socialized at an early age to avoid those fields (though that may be changing). Consequently, this hypothesis goes, they don’t know as much, and what they don’t know, they fear.

This would be convenient explanation for nuclear advocates, but it turns out not to be true. Study after study has examined the “knowledge gap” hypothesis and found that it doesn’t hold up. A comprehensive review of the literature from 1996 put it bluntly: “One hypothesis, the expectation that increased knowledge will lead to decreased concern, has received so little support, despite repeated examination, that it can be discarded.”

The next theory suggests that perhaps women tend to lean more liberal and are more easily swayed by climate cult nonsense. The likely answer? Yes. But, unsurprisingly, Vox has its doubts:

Or maybe it’s because women are more liberal? After all, there’s been a gender gap in partisanship for decades, as well, with women more likely to support activist government and assistance for children and the elderly. But that doesn’t explain why the gender gap disappears on more general energy questions, or questions about renewable energy.

So, what does Vox pin the problem on? You guessed it—the usual suspect: the white conservative man. According to them, these guys are reckless, lumbering jerks who thrive on chaos, have zero understanding of nuclear power’s dangers, and just plain hate the planet. Same old song and dance:

In short, the real gap on nuclear power is not between men and women, but between white men and everyone else. And this has far more to do with socialization than with any inherent or biological differences.

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A 1994 study called “Gender, Race, and Perception of Environmental Health Risks” concludes with some speculation:

Perhaps white males see less risk in the world because they create, manage, control, and benefit from so much of it. Perhaps women and nonwhite men see the world as more dangerous because in many ways they are more vulnerable, because they benefit less from many of its technologies and institutions, and because they have less power and control.

There’s a ton of baseless hysteria surrounding nuclear power, even though it’s one of the safest, cleanest, and most reliable energy sources out there. Thanks to top-notch safety protocols and cutting-edge technology, the nightmare scenario of a “Chernobyl” happening in America is practically off the table. Yet, this irrational fear has spawned an insanely sticky web of nuclear regulations, basically putting the brakes on building any new plants and taking advantage of this amazing energy source. And while there’s been a recent uptick in support for nuclear energy, the data shows that it’s loud-mouthed, uniformed women who are leading the charge against this common-sense technology. Sadly, we all suffer when they are hysterical and irrational.

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