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Ask any die-hard fan of The Simpsons about the most polarizing episode of the series, and odds are you’ll hear “Homer’s Enemy.
These are scenes from a 1990 episode of the long-running television show The Simpsons, in which protagonist and oaf Homer is a safety inspector at the fictional Springfield Nuclear Power Plant.
When The Simpsons premiered on December 17, 1989, no one could’ve predicted that it would turn out to be one of the longest-running—and most popular—TV shows.
While fans of The Simpsons have long treated Homer as a symbol of blue-collar chaos, what often gets overlooked is that Springfield’s nuclear power plant is a federally regulated facility. And ...
Most spent nuclear fuel is stored on site at nuclear plants, especially given that the effort to create a permanent repository has stalled. As Kavanaugh continues, my mind starts to wander to “The ...
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