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buried_lede t1_ix1t8s1 wrote

[EDIT: oops. I thought this comment was in the CT subreddit. Pardon me. ]

Only one of three reactors at Millstone is operating because we barely averted a meltdown that would have been our Chernobyl. Why? Because we trusted for profit companies not to mess with the engineers' designs in order to save some money and then we trusted them to tell the truth when they never did. Who was that company? Eversource, fka Northeast Utilities

Environmentalists didn't shut down Millstone, the Atomic Energy Commission did and then threw them over to Congress, which ripped them to pieces in public hearings

Yet they rose again, like mutant Phoenix larva from a radioactive ash heap. Behold, the corporation!

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