In hindsight, yes.  But back then?  I was in grade school and lived near Harrisburg at the time and parents were asking schools if they had nuclear fallout shelters.  IKYK - the Cuban missile crisis was still fresh in everyone’s minds and the threat of global thermonuclear war was so omnipresent they made end-of-world movies about it.  War Games, Terminator, etc.  Fast forward 45 years, I’m looking forward to what Microsoft will do with it.

Systems engineer, 10K/half-marathon runner, /appreciation mod /receipts

So true!  As it turns out, Nuclear energy is one of the safest forms of energy.  It’s gratifying that some (not all…Germany) world powers are giving Nuclear a serious second look and investing in the future.

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/648781756

This is a fantastic episode of hidden brain podcast about hw disasters are always predicted by some people but no one listens to them until it's to late

Dan said it.  Fear based policy created due to public opinion.