re: #119 Targetpractice

Well, for one thing, Chernobyl was still 30 years down the road. Hell, Three Mile Island was 20 years in the future. The men in white coats and/or military uniforms were assuring everybody that nuclear power was harmless if handled properly. It was the bolded that ended up killing the fantasies of home nuclear reactors or atomic planes dead as the dodo.

Exactly. If handled properly.

I’m just trying to imagine the average yutz driving a mobile nuclear reactor running a couple of plutonium fuel rods going down I-5 with “I Can’t Drive 55” blaring on the stereo.