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It might not be a good reference, but it was a deliberate one on the part of the Simpsons creators. Just as the name Bart was deliberately created because it's an anagram of "brat" and the name "Simpsons" is a takeoff on the Andersons of 1950s Primetime fame, they deliberately made Homer a nuclear power plant worker and Montgomery Burns a nuclear plant owner specificaly because of the place TMI and nuclear power in general occupies in our collective psyche. It was the biggest, baddest, scariest big corporation they could come up with. The fact that it resonates so well with our culture demonstrates how deeply ingrained the irrational fear of all things nuclear powered is.