Champaign Voices

Nuclear Power Gets Rebranded as Clean; Old Protest Signs Confused

Published: May 25, 2026

Policymakers and tech firms revived nuclear energy as a climate solution, forcing a cultural rewrite for people who learned to fear it from movies and the news in 1986. What do you think?

“If it keeps the lights on without roasting the planet, stop whispering.”
Buddy Neer, Glow-in-the-Dark Joke Specialist
“I'll allow it if the waste doesn't live next to the fairgrounds.”
Linda Ropp, Three Mile Island Documentary Watcher
“First it was dangerous. Now it's trendy. Pick a lane.”
Greg Huffman, Man Who Distrusts Anything Rebranded