Energy Secretary Wright on $1 billion loan to restart Three Mile Island nuclear plant

It's just much easier to sell fear than to sell reassurance. Of course, it was an early reactor with some bad designs and a human error, but that shouldn't even be possible to happen. But you're right, even with mechanical system design problems, human errors, no meaningful radiation was released, no impacts on human health.But it scared everyone. And the China Syndrome movie was out then, and we had a society ready to be fearful of nuclear power. Fortunately, now we've got, you know, 70 years of data from ...