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Reasoning is that coal kills more every day. As someone else said under one of the parent comments, even hydro kills more than nuclear. Dams have wiped out whol
by 4h53n 6y ago
Reasoning is that coal kills more every day. As someone else said under one of the parent comments, even hydro kills more than nuclear. Dams have wiped out whole regions.
https://www.dw.com/en/in-europe-1-in-8-deaths-linked-to-pollution-report/a-54847902 https://www.dw.com/en/in-europe-1-in-8-deaths-linked-to-poll...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_hydroelectric_power_station_failures https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_hydroelectric_power_st...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dam_failure#List_of_major_dam_failures https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dam_failure#List_of_major_dam_...
Our fear of nuclear power plants is irrational. We should be improving this technology not abandon it.
And, Chernobyl seems to thrive, just without humans.
https://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/news/00000154-1bd4-dbf2-a1f5-1ffc0b080000 https://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/news/00000154-1bd...
- drran 6y agoSo we should kill nuclear AND coal plants, and replace them with wind and solar energy.
- ben_w 6y agoNuclear is safer that putting PV on rooftops. However, just as nobody seriously tried to run a national power grid on PV 30 years ago because it was too expensive, today nuclear is the expensive white elephant of power that can only be justified by other benefits such as weapons and radioisotope medicines.