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BurningFrog
on Oct 23, 2020
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The world needs nuclear power and we shouldn’t be ...
My take is we never built a lot.
The industry died from bad PR before it got to mature much.
pfdietz
on Oct 23, 2020
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It was grossly overhyped by a government trying to make trillions (current dollars) spent on nuclear weaponry not seem such an egregious drain on humanity. That it would crash back to Earth as the hype and groupthink met reality was inevitable.
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The industry died from bad PR before it got to mature much.