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Define "very bad". The total deaths attributed to Fukushima (including increased chance of cancer over the next decades) is about 100 people. Chernobyl is surro
by losvedir 10y ago
Define "very bad". The total deaths attributed to Fukushima (including increased chance of cancer over the next decades) is about 100 people. Chernobyl is surrounded by essentially a thriving nature preserve.
What if the nuclear facility were surrounded by a human-forbidden nature preserve the size of the equivalently producing solar/wind farm?
- sunstone 10y agoI define "bad" by insurability. If the activity to be pursued has risks so high that no one will insure it. Then that's "very bad".
- lambdadmitry 10y agoI believe the "total deaths" argument is dishonest. The death count is so low precisely because we know the danger exists and effect massive evacuation and decontamination programs. Such efforts are very expensive and bring a lot of suffering to those displaced, but those downsides don't register on the "total deaths" scale.
- wbl 10y agoPeople live in Denver. If a nuclear reactor made a sea level city have the radiation of Denver we would evacuate it.