Comment on AI in Wyoming may soon use more electricity than state’s human residents
shalafi@lemmy.world 4 days agoGods 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 4 days 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 4 days ago
I know nothing about Exelon. ?