Nuclear power has long been considered public enemy number one, not just in the United States,

but in many countries around the world.

A handful of highly publicized disasters have given it a permanently smeared reputation,

despite it still being by far the safest of all power generation technologies, 100% carbon

neutral, and each new generation producing less and less waste.

We are rethinking nuclear power today on Skeptoid.

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I'm Brian Dunning from Skeptoid.com, the terror of nuclear power.

Let's have a seat at Homer Simpson's control panel, chow down on some donuts and nap away

into oblivion while blinking lights and buzzers warn of impending doom in that glowing green

bar of uranium that fell into our trousers.

Today we're going to examine the popular notions about nuclear power, specifically if xenophobia

had not killed nuclear power in the United States in the late 1970s, there's a good chance

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