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2. PR Management in Nuclear Meltdowns, lessons from 3 notable examples
Mon Nov 18, 2024, 08:01 PM
Nov 2024

When a reactor at Three Mile Island melted down, the “authorities” lied about it.

When a reactor at Chernobyl melted down, the “authorities” lied about it. (I knew a woman who lived in Kiev at the time. She was told nothing, but she noticed that buses arrived to take the important people somewhere. She had a phobia regarding rain, because she had let her children play in the rain, not knowing about the nuclear fallout it contained.) News about the accident became public when the plume was detected in Sweden.

When a tsunami hit the Fukushima nuclear complex, leading to multiple meltdowns, authorities lied.

That’s how to handle PR.

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