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> Witnessing such scorched-earth containment (ending with someones couch being neutralized) makes the modern definition of nuclear power as the ‘cleanest energy’ completely incomprehensible to me.

Thats a bit much, isnt it? This was in the early days of their nuclear progress, of course at the time it wasnt going to be a linear, completely efficient and sanitized. Kind of a weird comment, nothing develops perfectly while its development chugs along

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It’s a personal emotional experience, nothing weird about it at all. Only weird thing is how you singled it out.

The development programme was haphazard. They got bits and pieces off the Soviets and had to figure the rest out.

Right, but the statement extends to the present state of mind of the writer. They're saying that they currently find the notion that nuclear energy can be clean or the cleanest as absurd based on their childhood in the infancy of the program.

Isnt it currently the consensus that nuclear energy can be one of the more clean energy sources? Because they seem to hold their childhood view that thats crazy

The problem with the PRC is that if you complain about things you can get in a lot of trouble. That includes issues like safety and pollution.