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The "Single event" that people were reacting to would be Fukushima, recently beforehand. IMHO it's not an "outlier" single event, not after Chernobyl. The trac
by SideburnsOfDoom 7y ago
The "Single event" that people were reacting to would be Fukushima, recently beforehand.
IMHO it's not an "outlier" single event, not after Chernobyl. The track record matters.
But it is on the other side of the world. Unlike Chernobyl.
- detaro 7y agoBut that's not what happened. Fukushima merely turned the Merkel-governments attempts at weakening the already-decided and widely supported exit plans (which had been created following decades of a slowly growing anti-nuclear movement) from unpopular (even before Fukushima, a majority supported the existing exit plans and disagreed with the Merkel policy) to entirely politically nonviable. But somehow people think one headline from back then constitutes the entirety of German nuclear exit policy, and keep repeating this everywhere...
- SideburnsOfDoom 7y agoI'm not disagreeing, just pointing out that when the grandparent post says "emotional reactions to a single event", they are talking (correctly or not) about the Fukushima event, not Chernobyl. A response that "Chernobyl wasn't on the other side of the world" is either misunderstanding which event entirely, or skipping a whole lot of necessary preamble about it not being a "single event" at Fukushima.