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oldncrusty68 t1_jdahl4a wrote

Reply to comment by p6one6 in Maine's Energy future by mainething

It might be when the government threatened to turn lake region into a nuclear waste dump that turned us off from “clean” nuclear energy.

https://www.nytimes.com/1986/03/26/world/maine-saying-no-to-us-nuclear-waste-plan.html

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GRADIUSIC_CYBER t1_jdakw9h wrote

nuclear just has bad messaging imo.

I mean, we literally are driving tanker trucks all over New England to fill people's fuel oil tanks. I think people are just afraid of the unknown / outside entities / change. So instead we'll just keep spending a shit ton on heating and electricity.

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