The New York Times in a feat of contortionist logic has declared that Jane Fonda's 1979 movie The China Syndrome is responsible for the death of the US nuclear industry. They claim that the movie's release just prior to the Three Mile Island accident helped to fan the publics' fear of the industry. Somehow, they forget that the movie was largely ignored until the actual incident and that the industry was already wounded by scandal and corruption.
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That movie was so long ago that it could hardly be having an effect today. In the end, however, we'll have to move to nuclear as we'll have run out of other natural resources.
Given how cheap oil has been over the intervening two decades, the industry would have been struggling anyway.
Agreed.
Evil Spock is feeling a little warm after seeing that pic of Ms. Fonda . . .
Yup! She even still looked pretty good on the Cobert Report a few months back. We rented Barbarella last week. I'd forgotten just how bad it was. I'd also missed the numerous cultural references.
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