The Panic of Nuclear Power

There's this whole thing where we sort of whammy ourselves into believing that unless you can prove there will never be another three mile island, right? Or another meltdown or another any sort of damage at all from you, you can't possibly use it. And then what goes unmeasured is the catastrophic consequences of not having those safeguards in place. Richard Nixon had a plan called Project Independence in 1971 to roll out a thousand state of New Nuclear Actors in the US and cut the US completely over to nuclear power - but they didn't happen. There were two groups of people who wanted to ban alcohol in the US in the 1910s and 1920s that led to prohibition. The Baptist was