wrote:
Turns out over 90% of those intelligent, college-educated tree-
huggers, got their nuclear 'education' from a television cartoon show
called 'The Simpsons.'

Network television didn't come along until I was in my teens and I
never caught the habit, had never heard of 'The Simpsons' until I saw
the report. Indeed, most didn't believe it... until a second firm
came up with similar results.

Given enough money a properly conducted propaganda campaign can
convince people of literally ANYTHING. But the estimated cost of
altering the public's cartoon-based misconceptions about nuclear power
was on the order of several BILLION 1980-era dollars and the nuclear
power industry budget for PR was less than a million. Ergo, no more
nuke plants in the USA.

Newton Minow was right :-)

-R.S.Hoover

The first episode of The Simpsons didn't air until 12/17/89. A quick look
shows the last increase in the number of operating reactors happened between
before 1990. I think there was some bad info out there before The Simpsons.