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Paratroopa1 posted...

Nah, I do agree that Simpsons has been a problem for nuclear energy. The way they depict it is just cartoonishly evil, and instead of it all being on Mr. Burns they make the very idea of nuclear energy look bad, with huge smokestacks and nuclear waste just being dumped into rivers, which really isn't what nuclear energy looks like at all. It's a known thing that nuclear energy advocates have been hurt by the Simpsons since the 90's.

It's really unfortunate but it's almost understandable. When the show started it had only been 3 years since Chernobyl and 10 since Three Mile Island. Concern about irresponsibly-run nuclear power plants was very much a thing in the public consciousness, independent of any media, and the show was just tapping into that.

At some point though the show did become the main driving force behind that sentiment rather than just commenting on something that already existed, and they should have changed it a long time ago.