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Corner cutters did their part very well too. Nuclear power plant accidents haven’t always happened as a matter of unknown consequences. Some of them have happen

• vidarh 6y ago
  We could have a Chernobyl level even every year or two and it'd still kill fewer people than coal. There may well turns out to be safer options in the long term, but in the short term almost anything that shortens the lifetime of coal plants is a good thing, because worldwide coal kills more people every year than the nuclear industry has killed combined in its entire lifetime.
• andbberger 6y ago
  Is it corner cutting? Or is it that nearly all extant nuclear power plants use very early designs with poor safety controls. Imagine how much worse car related fatalities would be if we were all still driving model T's with no crumple zones. (poor example really, because cars are inherently unsafe and nuclear energy is not)
  • LordDragonfang 6y ago
    >cars are inherently unsafe and nuclear energy is not That's a real doozy of an assertion.
• thecleaner 6y ago
  Random third party audits would with publicly available results would really help with this. Of course both these things could not be done in Soviet Union where highers ups were just incapable of answering questions.