Sally Average won't allow nuclear in her backyard, for all backyards in the US.
The Simpsons and its consequences have been a disaster for nuclear power, and the human race.
The show aired years after the anti-nuclear movement started having real effects on the industry.
Sorry, let me amend.
The anti-nuclear movement and its consequences have been a disaster for The Simpsons
CO2 accumulates in the atmosphere where it acts as a greenhouse gas. How much is this going to cost us in the long run?
I speak from personal experience. My partner is from Belarus. Their mother was nearby in Gomel at the time of the incident, and she was pregnant with my sister in law. Both my sister in law's kids have birth defects. The number of people my partner knows who have died of cancer is staggering.
And I'm not the only one to notice these impacts. Here is an article from the BBC that explores wool workers who treated radioactive wool [0]. A vast majority have either died or were forced to retire due to poor health. And these wool workers were just a microcosm of what went on in the country after the disaster.
Even today, some milk from Belarus has been found to be radioactive [1].
0: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190725-will-we-ever-kno...
1: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/08/world/europe/chernobyl-nu...
It also has nothing to do with power generation or nuclear power.