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1977: The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is constructed with the latest safety features of the day instead of being the outdated piece of crap it was.
1979: Workers at the Three Mile Island reactor notice core temperatures are too hot, the reactor is shut down before any serious damage occurs. The reactor goes offline, but is brought back in 1984.
1986: Alternative to 1977: The people working at Chernobyl are not idiots, so the reactor doesn't have a meltdown.
20005-2010: The people at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant listen to the plant inspectors, and construct the new backup generator higher up the hill with better defenses.

IOTL the public's fear against nuclear energy started after the Three Mile Island accident, even though it wasn't really anything major. The fear was further cemented after Chernobyl. The general opinion on nuclear energy started to rise recently, but Fukushima (which was preventable and no-one got hurt from it) set us back. But what would be the today's general stance if these 3 accidents never occurred?

1 thing that's for sure is that there would of been new reactors in the US, since those stopped after Three Mile Island (until 2011 when Obama approved 2 new reactors in Georgia :cool:), which would mean that a lot less CO2 would be emitted from the US today. But besides that, would there be any differences today? Would the USSR lasted slightly longer, and would there be any new countries with nuclear bombs?
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