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I think it might be easier to answer that question if you outline which consequences you're most concerned about.
by striking 10y ago
I think it might be easier to answer that question if you outline which consequences you're most concerned about.
- beders 10y agoA single accident can kill thousands, cause cancer for several hundred thousands more, cost billions of dollars in clean up usually tax payers pay for, nuclear plants have no concept of proper disposing and dismantling a reactor, have byproducts with unacceptable half lives, are potential targets for terror threats, use other harmful chemicals (people like to ignore) etc. etc. etc.
- Natsu 10y agoChernobyl-style reactors are a thing of the past, modern ones don't do all that. Even Fukushima didn't kill anyone, just some contamination that will cause some statistical level of cancer increase.
- tcbawo 10y agoThe long time horizon to recover from any disaster is scary. Chernobyl (clearly inadequate safety planning) aside, is there any reason to believe that a Fukushima-type disaster would not be possible (or inevitable)?