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Originally Posted by Pio1980
I wouldn't necessarily call it a "liberal overreaction" to something that wasn't supposed to happen. The distrust that resulted from this incident was general and not unreasonable, given the causes.
A learning experience for better technology, procedures and design that was already marginally cost effective.
Nuke power is tantalizing, but it has to be safe, clean, and cost effective. It has yet to fulfill all of those goals.
Meanwhile, it's been bypassed by relatively cheaper fracked gas that has yet to fully reveal the unintended consequences of it's adoption.
Meanwhile, geothermal power generation is getting attention as the next perpetual renewable energy resource.
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Somehow I left media out, but it was clearly on overreaction and you were probably an overreactor.
Most of France's electrical power is nuclear generated. The amount of radiation released due to TMI was less than Denver experiences daily and the lessons learned from TMI would have improved the technology.
We screwed the pouch here.