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I think you are confusing Jimmy Carter with Three Mile Island. The former favoured renewables over nuclear, but it was the latter that stopped nuclear energy de
by evgen 5y ago
I think you are confusing Jimmy Carter with Three Mile Island. The former favoured renewables over nuclear, but it was the latter that stopped nuclear energy development in its tracks.
- loonster 5y agoNo I am not. He banned the reprocessing of spent fuels.
- egberts1 5y agoyou seemed sure. https://www.upi.com/Archives/1981/10/08/Reagan-lifts-ban-on-nuclear-fuel-recycling/9330371361600/ https://www.upi.com/Archives/1981/10/08/Reagan-lifts-ban-on-...
- loonster 5y agoYes Regan lifted it but the damage was done. Say you are a company that is thinking about spending a few billion on a nuclear powerplant, are you going to take the risk when a single person, that possibly might change every 4 years, can decide your fate. This was not good policy.
- evgen 5y agoThe reprocessing of spent fuel had nothing to do with the success or failure of nuclear power in the US. Anyone claiming otherwise is poorly informed.