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Yeah, but I think just calling nuclear energy thorium or quantum energy or whatever is too shallow. The nuclear element of nMRI is kind of peripheral, but I don

Yeah, but I think just calling nuclear energy thorium or quantum energy or whatever is too shallow. The nuclear element of nMRI is kind of peripheral, but I don't think anyone will let you do that with mass-to-energy conversion power plants. With airplanes, everyone knows they're really safe. Everyone says they're safer than cars. People are still afraid of airplanes but they're reassured. It'd be nice if nuclear fission could get to this level in the public zeitgeist.

runlevel1 7y ago
> With airplanes, everyone knows they're really safe. Everyone says they're safer than cars. Though true by many metrics, the fact that this has entered into the public zeitgeist is a victory in marketing. While commercial air travel is much safer per hour and per KM, it is less safe by the metric used by the industry and its insurers: Deaths per journey.[1] However, there's a strong argument to be made that time and distance are more relevant to the consumer anyways. Still, the per-journey metric could have been weaponized by an opponent of commercial air travel to assert the opposite. [1]: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg16321985-200-flight-into-danger/ https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg16321985-200-flight-i...