Word: homers
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...idiot" on the council's list was Homer, father of the Simpson family and an employee of the fictitious Springfield nuclear plant. Homer seems to care less about safety than about naps, doughnuts and having enough tartar sauce for his fish sticks...
...various episodes, Homer gives away the plant's blueprints to a foreign exchange student, his boss tries to bribe a plant inspector with a bushel of cash, and three-eyed "Blinky" is found swimming near the plant...
...sorry that the Simpsons has offended a lot of people in the energy industry," Executive Producer Sam Simon said in a February 5 letter to Carl Goldstein, a vice president of energy group. "I agree with you that in real life, Homer Simpson would not be employed at a nuclear power plant...
Although they did little initial research, Simon said the "Simpsons" creators seemed to represent worker conditions accurately. The writers placed Homer in a "sector" to illustrate an impersonal bureaucracy, then discovered some plants actually used that term...
Plans even call for Homer to avert a nuclear meltdown...