> But Europe has bad memories of that because of outdated tech in eastern Europe going haywire. Opposition to nuclear plants is much older than Chernobyl's cat

> But Europe has bad memories of that because of outdated tech in eastern Europe going haywire. Opposition to nuclear plants is much older than Chernobyl's catastrophe; it started at least in the early 70s, with the big protests in Wyhl, Germany. And frankly, the way some western European states have been dealing with the plants we do have is not reassuring. Maybe the distribution of iodine pills in the German towns bordering Belgium was overkill, but it shows that those nuclear states aren't taking the concerns seriously enough.