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"maybe people working on nuclear power need to change the name"

Renaming things with bad public images is a popular trick.

Windscale > Sellafield

Blackwater > Xe Services > Academi

Philip Morris > Altria

The Blackwater one always mystified me. It’s like they set out to be villains.

They aren't?

It was founded in North Carolina. The large number of freshwater waterways around there are generally known as black water.

That means something very different to sailors.

Pray tell?

Blackwater is sewage containing bodily waste.