Reply #31: Here's a little known fact about the anti-nuclear movement. [View All]

[NNadir]

One of the hotspots of the anti-nuclear movement was Long Island where we (yes, I am a regretful veteran of this movement) stopped the Shoreham nuclear power plant from coming on line, thereby sentancing many people in the area to death by air pollution. In fact, after Shoreham, most utilities where terrified to order new nuclear plants, not because nuclear plants didn't work, but because they dreaded the assault of idiots.

The genesis of the anti-nuclear anti-Shoreham movement did not begin at Shoreham however. It started on Lloyd's Neck. Lilco, the utility at the time proposed building three nuclear plants on Long Island, one at Shoreham, one at Jamesport (on the North Fork of the Island) and one at Lloyd's Neck - which happens to be one of the wealthiest communities in the world. Suddenly the non-existent anti-nuclear movement was a well-funded well-promoted affair with excellent access to the media.

Lilco got the message pretty quickly and scratched Lloyd's Neck off the list. The damage was already done though The millionaires and billionaires in Lloyd's Neck moved on to other pursuits, and lost their interest in nuclear issues, but the anti-nuclear movement on Long Island had been created and would come to fruition at Shoreham.

Those protests by the way, were sometimes great places to meet girls.

Now on Long Island they burn garbage for power.