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longor1996 | 3 months ago

Wasn't all that bad PR mostly caused by the coal/oil industry, doing some serious astroturfing for a decade or so?

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fundatus|3 months ago

Well, at least for Germany it was the actual nuclear fallout over large areas of the country after Chernobyl. Which is btw still measurable today. [1] That's a pretty scary thing to happen to you and one just has to accept that these are the actual lived experiences of people that form their opinions.

[1] https://www.bfs.de/EN/topics/ion/environment/foodstuffs/mush...

jabl|3 months ago

Radiation detectors can detect very low levels of radiation (far below any measurable health effects, for instance), so claiming we can still detect fallout from Chernobyl doesn't really say anything.

eucyclos|3 months ago

I think it was mostly caused by fear about nuclear Armageddon during the cold war - it's hard to feel like the world could end at any second due to nuclear bombs while also feeling grateful for nuclear electricity generation. Would be even if there was no overlap between military and civilian nuclear industries, which of course there is.

toyg|3 months ago

If by "the coal industry" you mean people in charge of Chernobyl and Fukushima...

Angostura|3 months ago

And Windscale (now Sellafield) and Three Mile Island

longor1996|3 months ago

Oh, sorry! Shouldn't have said "all" there... :'D