Saskatchewan Energy Minister Bill Boyd said Thursday that a proposal from Ontario-based Bruce Power for a large-scale power plant in the province will not move forward.
With such shows as The Simpsons poking fun at the nuclear industry and movies that focus on disasters, Irwin says it's somewhat disappointing there are so many negative stereotypes in the media about nuclear power. The editor of the book The Simpsons and Philosophy says television and movies about nuclear disasters such as Chernobyl and Three Mile Island have also added to negative publicity surrounding nuclear power. Burns," Irwin said during a recent interview on a Saskatchewan radio talk show. "She's very eco-friendly, and very much against nuclear power and the nuclear power plant run by Mr. It didn't cause any deaths or injuries, but led to sweeping changes in the U.S. In the two months after the disaster, 31 people died of radioactivity, but the final toll is still debated, with the World Health Organization estimating that about 9,300 will eventually die from cancers caused by Chernobyl's radiation.Ī partial meltdown occurred in Three Mile Island's Unit 2 reactor near Middletown, Pa., on March 28, 1979. It directly contaminated an area roughly half the size of Italy, displacing hundreds of thousands of people. 4 on April 26, 1986, was the world's worst nuclear accident, spewing radiation over a large swath of the former Soviet Union and much of northern Europe. But the show's most intelligent character, Homer's daughter, Lisa, is portrayed as a staunch environmental advocate. Burns, is portrayed as a cold-hearted, greedy industrialist. He also points out that the owner of the nuclear power plant in The Simpsons, Mr. Bill Irwin, a philosophy professor at King's College in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., says Homer - the bumbling main character in The Simpsons who works at a nuclear power plant - has perhaps helped to put a negative spin on nuclear power by doing such things on the show as trying to stop a meltdown by randomly pressing buttons on a console.
The debate over nuclear power has been raging in Saskatchewan and Alberta, and both provinces have signalled they would take a cautious approach to any proposals for nuclear power plants.ĭr.
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((Fox Broadcasting Co./Associated Press) )An American philosophy professor who has edited a series of books about how TV programs such as The Simpsons have affected popular culture says many people may be concerned about nuclear power from watching the animated cartoon show. Long-running animated TV show The Simpsons has perhaps cast nuclear power in a negative light thanks to the bumbling exploits of patriarch Homer, according to Prof.
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