By publishing this nonsense about Westinghouse contract in Ukraine, Russian state media do irreparable harm to its own #nuclear industry —Rosatom still provides fuel and services to Ukraine.
Ukraine’s state owned nuclear utility Energoatom signed an exclusive a $30 billion dollar agreement with Westinghouse to complete construction of Khmelnitsky.
There have got to be some VERY unhappy people at the Kurchatov Institute right now. For years they've used their prestige within Russia to assure that Ukraine continues to receive nuclear fuel, & to maintain active engagement with Ukraine in the nuclear energy sector, despite the Kremlin's attitude.
But you see this all the time : Russian media presents a solidly pro-nuclear narrative when it comes to Russian-built plants, and one as solidly anti-nuclear when it comes to all others.
Also, if the latter is true ("anti-nuclear when it comes to all others"), they have clearly not learned any lessons from their anti-vaccine campaigns in the West, which were promptly translated back into Russian by anti-vaxxers and created massive distrust against their own vaccination program.
Sir Fred thought the reason was that the USSR possessed vast reserves of fossil fuels, & wanted to use them to gain political leverage over the West. Certainly, with Nord Stream, this has been fulfilled in Germany ; but more generally the reason seems to have been a desire to destabilize & delegitimize governments & civil institutions. Overall that strategy continues to be pursued.
Absolutely yes, there's strong of evidence for KGB control of most anti-nuclear-weapons groups worldwide
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_influence_on_the_peace_movement
Not so much for anti-nuclear-power, but they didn't have to (local activists easily switched from weapons to power) and didn't care - as you correctly noted, Russia placed strategic bet on fossil fuels in the West.
The anti-whatever movements then
nicely converged with the US (and UK) tort law firms, as documented by David Zaruk - they have co-engineered the GMO lawsuits, MMR vaccine lawsuits (failed, Wakefield scandal), mobile phone lawsuits, Roundup, talcum and other nonsense.
@publius Oh you mean this one? Just found it and ordered on Alibris :) It's "Energy or Extinction? The case for nuclear energy", 1977. Sounds very much up-to-date in the context of 2021 energy concerns.
I think that's the one. As I understand it, the strongest language only occurs in the first printing, which I don't have. He wrote (with Geoff) more than one in that time period, & they're all good reads ― not as repetitive as you might think. One of them has a fascinating digression into the history of the Stephensons of railway locomotive fame.
@kravietz
You might say it is the other way around. There is strong reason to believe that Western antinuclearism was backed by the Soviets, & then it redounded on them in the form of the massive post-Chernobyl chaos & loss of confidence in the USSR. Support for the anti-vaccine & anti-GMO campaigns have followed the model laid down by the anti-nuclear-energy efforts.
Sir Fred Hoyle discussed this in a book in the 1970s, & was threatened over it by "Friends of the Earth".