Comment on Can somebody please explain why the world hasn't gone nuclear yet?
shalafi@lemmy.world 5 days ago
I’ll tell you why we stopped in America. The Three Mile Island incident was 12 days after The China Syndrome hit theaters, a movie about a reactor meltdown. That’s it. That simple. People freaked out and we shut down plans for new plants.
aupag@feddit.org 2 days ago
The nuclear buildout already really slowed down before for economic reasons. Three Mile Island certainly had an impact, but it was only a part of the reason why the US stopped.