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Originally Posted by 125shifter
I remember that Jimmy Carter went into the containment area where a black cleaning lady was mopping up water and they both became giants.
PS. I've been in a nuclear plant. It was one of the cleanest, most over guarded places I've ever been.
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The Pepsi Syndrome, or the Incident at Two Mile Island.
SNL Transcripts: Richard Benjamin: 04/07/79: The Pepsi Syndrome
That was the very first SNL episodes I ever saw. I think I saw the Bassomatic "Comercial" the same night. It's still one of best episodes and skits I've ever seen.
Reporter #1: Is it true that the president is a hundred feet tall?
Ross Denton: That's nonsense! Of course not!
Reporter #2: Is it true that he's ninety feet tall?
Ross Denton: No comment
I grew up just down the road from one of the first nuke plant built. I think it was built by the feds and turned over to Northern States Power to teach the industry how to use nukes. It was far safer than the coal plant spewing smoke right next to it. Millions of people die every year from complications relating to coal smoke and coal mining. Those deaths are completely preventable with careful use of nukes.
In my opinion, the death knell of the nuclear power industry was the unfortunate convergance of Karen Silkwood's real life lawsuit that included allegations of her being killed in a traffic accident to silence her as a whistle blower, Three Mile Island, and The China Syndrome. All three happened closely enough that the image of nuclear power as unsafe and the industry being dangerously reckless and secret became entrenched in popular culture. The nuclear power plant in The Simpsons is an ode to Three Mile Island and the lingering perception of the nuclear power industry being personified by evildoing tycoons like Montgomery Burns.
Edit: I understand that an alternate theory explaining how the real life Karen Silkwood ended up contaminated with radiation and therefore become a whistle blower with a lawsuit. And that was that she was an anti-nuke activist and stole some radioactive material to create some contamination in order to sabotage the building of the plant. I've heard that no one else was ever contaminated and they could never figure out how she got exposed if she didn't do it on purpose.