Okay this might sound like conspiracy theory bullshit
Only to people who haven’t been paying attention. Russia has been funding Environmental Groups in the US and the EU for decades with the goal of disrupting domestic energy supplies and ensuring reliance on Russian Oil and Gas.
If you web search a phrase like “Russia funded environmental groups” you can find plenty of references, especially around 2014 and again in 2022, but if you dig further you can find research on this dating back to the 1980s.
BTW, if you remember the “Earth Liberation Front” (ELF) that was actively burning shit down (literal arson) back in the 1990s then this article from the New York Times will interest you. One of the ELF’s founding members, Joseph Mahmoud Dibee, was being hunted by the FBI so he fled home…to Russia.
But is there any major country preparing to construct nuclear power plants, or is there a looming decision about nuclear power over fossil fuels coming soon?
Yes. China is building quite a few but more relevant is that here in the United States a traditional one was just completed, we have two more in the permitting process, and we have at least one (if not two) next-gen Natrium SMR’s under way.
The anti-nuclear coverage isn’t all Russian propaganda of course but articles like this one should be viewed with deep suspicion.