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We can thank the hippies of the 60s and 70s for all their anti-nuclear silliness for making the nuclear industry heavily over regulated.
by edm0nd 3y ago
We can thank the hippies of the 60s and 70s for all their anti-nuclear silliness for making the nuclear industry heavily over regulated.
- Toutouxc 3y agoThere was also the Soviet nuclear fireworks project in the 80s that didn’t help much.
- hef19898 3y agoAnd then it took until the 90s to have an actual imopact on policy. It always puzzles how people get even the most basic timelines wrong.
- _ph_ 3y agoYou have to to be honest. They were able to push for stronger regulations not because politics mainly listens to hippies. Stronger regulations were prudent considering the safety levels of the earlier reactor design. Without those regulations, many more cheap, but less safe reactors might have been built. Of which more had gone bad over years. So yes, if you will, thank the hippies for preventing several nuclear incidents.