Don’t laugh, it can have an effect.
Jane Fonda’s “The China Syndrome” followed a week or so later by Three Mile Island went a long way towards killing new nuclear plants being built.
Believe me, I know. I was working on a Master's Degree in Uranium Geochemistry when that little bomb dropped.
Between TMI and a couple of other market factors, I ended up with a pretty decent career in the Oil industry...but only because I could make the jump.