Originally Posted by BobF  Nuclear Energy.
Could it have been due to the fact the only entity with nuclear information was the military? |
Who cares...
I'm French... we just got nukes to go on a p1ss1ng contest against the USA. It was a time were Communist were still politically strong in France and our point of view on the cold war was "better being communist than dead". Meanwhile for electricity we were serious from the start. and last time I checked more than 80% of our production is nuclear, powerplant are new and well maintained by public funds, old one are being retired while new one are build and we also constantly do research and dev on supergenerator (superphoenix... not exactly a success, but doing research don't mean that you "find" all the time, that is why the private sector don't invest in these kind of fields) and won a bid last year against the japanese for research on new fusion technology (ITER).
In the 90' there was even a commercial on TV showing a guy with a drilling machine... His neighbourg ask him why he's so noisy. the bloke answer "sorry i'm using my electric drilling machine"... The neighbourg answer "you mean your nuclear drilling machine" with a huge smile on his face and goes on to explain the benefit of responsible deployment of nuclear powerplants. (It was mostly to reassure against the risks of a French Tchernobyl)