I'd argue that Three Mile Island was more impactful to American hesitation towards nuclear energy than Chernobyl ever was. By the time Chernobyl happened American nuclear industry was already in a massive panic over TMI

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hisfraudulency 2 hours ago | parent [-]

TMI hadn't even entered my mind while typing out that comment which just goes to show how political the historiography of this stuff is.

	▲	SoftTalker 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Well TMI didn't kill anyone and the environmental contamination was minimal. It was just a scary few days because of the theoretical worst case outcome.