Unfortunately, this term, if used without comment, invites suspicion. I chased one chain of links through to “Maryland Clean Energy…” It turns out that they use the term as it should be able to be understood if it hadn’t been discoloured by unsightly yellow (cake) patches courtesy of the Chinese Communist Party, which has an idea that it can re-educate the international environmental movement about how it should think of “clean.” I found that the Marylanders explicitly contrast clean with nuclear.That would correspond with precepts of most who would consider themselves environmentally motivated.

Most, or at least a growing minority of those same are by now on guard against the bizarre attempt of the CCP, a dictatorship, to foist its reframed terminology onto a free market of ideas. At least the linked source, a Clean Technica colleague, does indicate, though without comment, that China’s talk about clean energy includes nuclear. If Clean Technica is not getting any pecuniary encouragement from China to to attempt to palm off its wolfish thinking in sheep’s clothing, it would do well to be wary of uncritically passing on whatever the PR arm of a fascist regime churns out.

None of that, of course, in any way seeks to detract from the seriously impressive development of RE in China, under same said fascist regime.