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The internet of the time consisted of NNTP newsgroups. There was a lot of talk about it by a lot of people, and a lot of opinions and claims of expertise. Filtering out what was true wasn't that easy.

I am not a nuclear physicist and nobody I knew at the time was, either, though personally I thought it was one of those too-good-to-be-true things, and sure enough, it was.

My larger point, however, was that there was a lot of pushback from environmentalists who, when faced with a solution to the energy problem, looked for a way to stop it.



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