longor1996 13 hours ago

Wasn't all that bad PR mostly caused by the coal/oil industry, doing some serious astroturfing for a decade or so?

eucyclos 12 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I think it was mostly caused by fear about nuclear Armageddon during the cold war - it's hard to feel like the world could end at any second due to nuclear bombs while also feeling grateful for nuclear electricity generation. Would be even if there was no overlap between military and civilian nuclear industries, which of course there is.

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fundatus 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Well, at least for Germany it was the actual nuclear fallout over large areas of the country after Chernobyl. Which is btw still measurable today. [1] That's a pretty scary thing to happen to you and one just has to accept that these are the actual lived experiences of people that form their opinions.

[1] https://www.bfs.de/EN/topics/ion/environment/foodstuffs/mush...

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jabl 10 hours ago | parent [-]

Radiation detectors can detect very low levels of radiation (far below any measurable health effects, for instance), so claiming we can still detect fallout from Chernobyl doesn't really say anything.

	▲	fundatus 9 hours ago \| parent [-]
		To quote from the article I linked to: > In the last years values of up to several thousand becquerel per kilogram were measured in wild game and certain edible mushrooms. In Germany it is not permitted to market food with more than 600 becquerel caesium-137 per kilogram.

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toyg 13 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

If by "the coal industry" you mean people in charge of Chernobyl and Fukushima...

	▲	longor1996 12 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Oh, sorry! Shouldn't have said "all" there... :'D
	▲	Angostura 13 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		And Windscale (now Sellafield) and Three Mile Island

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lysace 13 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

See also: Gazprom, Gerhard Schröder (”Putin’s man in Germany” according to NYT) and the German nuclear power shutdown.

https://atomicinsights.com/gazprom-profiting-mightily-from-g...

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/23/world/europe/schroder-ger...