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While the death toll of nuclear accidents is relatively low, their economic cost seems to be staggering. The Japanese authorities enforced a 30km exclusion zone
by Udik 8y ago
While the death toll of nuclear accidents is relatively low, their economic cost seems to be staggering. The Japanese authorities enforced a 30km exclusion zone around Fukushima; if an accident of similar size had happened to the Beznau nuclear plant, the entire city of Zürich could have fallen inside the exclusion zone. Just think of the real estate value vaporized.
Even if it's one event in a thousand years, I'm not sure it's worth the risk.
- piquadrat 8y agoFun fact, there were serious plans in the 1950ies to build a nuclear power plant right in Zurich, primarily as district heating for ETH Zurich. https://www.research-collection.ethz.ch/bitstream/handle/20.500.11850/88080/eth-30387-01.pdf https://www.research-collection.ethz.ch/bitstream/handle/20.... (page 83, German)