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I'm not even sure that the number of people who died or could die is really the most severe point but i rather believe it is the cost of a nuclear accident. We
by chefkoch 11y ago
I'm not even sure that the number of people who died
or could die is really the most severe point but i rather believe it is the cost of a nuclear accident.
We as a society decide every day to let people die because it is too expensive. Think of healthcare, safety norms or human aid.
And having massive areas in high developed countries beeing uninhabitable is unbelieveble costly.
Think what 100 sqm in california would amount to.
- mikeyouse 11y agoEven more troubling.. There's a similar generation nuclear reactor about 40 miles from NYC. Just imagine the cost if Manhattan was in an exclusion zone.
- wrsh07 11y agoThe Chernobyl exclusion zone is 30km radius. That's the exclusion zone for the worst nuclear power plant disaster in history. Indian Point is >60km away. This is needless fear-mongering.
- mikeyouse 11y agoLook at the actual map for the exclusion zone: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/23/Chernobyl_radiation_map_1996.svg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/23/Chernoby... There are areas over 100km away that are still in the closed zone. They found hotspots of >100 curies/sq km up to 300km from the reactors. It's not like there's a safe little 30km concentric circle. If NYC were upwind from Indian Point, I woudln't be "fear-mongering" but an event like Chernobyl would very likely impact NYC.