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The half-meltdown of one reactor at Three Mile Island in 1979. (Three meters of the six meter thick floor of the concrete containment vessel were burned through by the overloaded nuclear core during the event.) That was the moment that killed all future nuclear power plant construction and created large anti-nuclear power groups opposed to putting plants anywhere near anything. The steam explosion (w/radioactive fallout) at Chernobyl in 1986 solidified the anti-nuke stance.
I'm sure The Simpsons portrayal of nuclar power plant workers and ownership has not helped the cause of Nuclear Energy. "Years of working in a nuclear power plant have given me a healthy green glow."
For a while a solution seemed to be coming in the form of fusion based nuclear power... although if they used anti-matter as a reactant... well ka-boom is too small a term if a leak occured.
The easiest solution is to somehow capture the hot air coming out of Rush Limbaugh's mouth and convert it into energy. I think it could power the entire southeast for years!
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