There’s the red scare, and there’s the nuke scare…
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shalafi@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoKnow why we quit building plants in the 70s? I wish this was a joke.
The China Syndrome, a movie about a core meltdown at a nuclear power plant, came out about 2 weeks before the Three Mile Island incident.
0x0@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The worst part of that is The Mike Island wasn’t so much a nuclear disaster, it was a PR and communications disaster.
shalafi@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Gods yes! A poof a radioactive steam got loose, and we quickly got a handle on it. But Americans at the time were leery of nuclear power, both through ignorance and fear of global thermonuclear war. Then that fucking movie was on our minds. What a disaster.
I was a child and remember Oklahoma shutting down the Black Fox nuclear plant, after years of planning and construction. Hippies were already protesting, The China Syndrome gave them the political power to end it.
Good job on that one environmentalists!
halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Don’t discount the PR from Exelon being complete dogshit. Actively lying to the public instead of actually explaining what was going on and when getting caught by the public and called out by the media trying to double down.
It screwed the entire industry. It proved to the public that they couldn’t trust a company to tell them the truth when the issue wasn’t really bad. There’s no way they’d tell the truth when things were actually bad.
It destroyed the entire industry’s credibility in just a few days.
shalafi@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I know nothing about Exelon. ?