Once a country becomes dependent on a technology like nuclear power, it is very hard to reverse course, as in France, where an early decision with a powerful trusted government and little intense opposition entrenched nuclear power—analogous to Finland's unresponsiveness to cell-phone/cancer fears because Nokia and cell-phone use are central to its economy.
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“once the country was nuclear power very hard to change it for various reasons one is that the country's dependent on it it's a little like in Finland during the effort to dissociate cellphones with cancer Finland was particularly unresponsive because Nokia you know the industry is is cell phone and the Finns have a lot of cell phones”
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