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Does this amount to: "If you accept the premise that you can trust people not to be idiots, nuclear power is perfectly safe"? I say that as someone positively
by scarmig 11y ago
Does this amount to: "If you accept the premise that you can trust people not to be idiots, nuclear power is perfectly safe"?
I say that as someone positively predisposed toward nuclear. People can also be stupid with other sources of energy, of course, but that kind of stupidity is the kind that kills people slowly and unglamorously.
- toomuchtodo 11y agoExactly. When was the last time solar panels or a wind turbine melted down?
- sjwright 11y agoWorkers occasionally fall off roofs and turbines. Not often, but often enough for them to cause more deaths per kilowatt than nuclear power.
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- douche 11y agoBlades occasionally fall off... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1R31p1q14SU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1R31p1q14SU
- ropman76 11y agoA friend's house caught fire because of a short in their rooftop solar panels.
- sliverstorm 11y agoThis always jumps to mind: http://i.imgur.com/xHyOoc9.jpg http://i.imgur.com/xHyOoc9.jpg
- toomuchtodo 11y agoWhich is why you should always bring your escape gear with, no matter how long you intend to be.