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Disgust sensitivity and public opinion on nuclear energy
- ggm 5y agoAt some level pre-internet cultural memes like the three eyed fish of the Simpsons, not to mention the whole Homer shtick at work, plus comic book "cherenkov glow" effects and rumours played to this. Nobody in post Chernobyl british farming found it easy learning entire years of lamb production was un-marketable. That the risks of death from incidental pollution by coal-fired electricity was higher does not matter to consumers. Farmers DTRT and held upland sheep back from sale. What happened to gamma ray sterilisation of food? At one point it was all the rage.