[mythtv-users] [Slightly OT] solar power for all our gadgets

[Nick Rout]

On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 7:26 PM, David Brodbeck <gull at gull.us> wrote:
> Jeff Walther wrote:
>>
>> And it didn't have to be this way, but misguided or just evil people flat
>> out lied about nuclear power and scared the public.
>
> I think the stage for that was actually set pretty early by military
> secrecy.  Accidents that affected employees and people downwind at military
> nuclear facilities like Hanford and Rocky Flats were covered up, and that
> bred a culture of mistrust.  When the government came along later and
> asserted, quite correctly, that commercial nuclear power plants were safe,
> they no longer had any credibility with the public.

The public perception may also be affected by such names as "Three
Mile Island", "Chernobyl", "Forsmark" (and there are others).