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Not on that list is the Three Mile Island accident that happened almost simultaneously with the release of the movie "The China Syndrome", seven years before C
by amanaplanacanal 5y ago
Not on that list is the Three Mile Island accident that happened almost simultaneously with the release of the movie "The China Syndrome", seven years before Chernobyl. In the US at least, I suspect that was very influential.
- pfdietz 5y agoMore consequential was the passage in 1978 of PURPA. With PURPA, the grids began to be opened to non-utility competition -- and this was cheaper than utility nuclear plants. Initially it was mostly just cogeneration, or at least things that were nominally cogeneration, but mostly run to make power to sell to the grid. But this (and the cessation of the growth in electric demand) ruined the case for new utility nuclear plants.