the twelve months following the accident, the governments of Sweden, Denmark, Austria, New Zealand, and the Philippines all pledged to permanently abandon their nuclear programs, and nine other nations either canceled or delayed plans for further reactor construction. Opinion polls suggested that, since Chernobyl, two-thirds of people around the world opposed any further development of nuclear energy. The United States faced a complete collapse in reactor building, and the very name of the Ukrainian plant became embedded in the international
