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We all seem to get that airplanes are safe and that being afraid to fly is something to overcome. We also know how disastrously it can go wrong if the plane cra
by Aachen 6y ago
We all seem to get that airplanes are safe and that being afraid to fly is something to overcome. We also know how disastrously it can go wrong if the plane crashes into flats (I'm thinking of the Bijlmer disaster, not a terrorist attack): it's not a theoretical risk, it's just exceedingly unlikely to happen to you.
How come this is communicated differently for fission energy? Looking at the data it's a similar situation.
- StillBored 6y agoPlanes are massively more dangerous too. How many actual deaths are a result of nuke accidents? Depending on how you count its possible more people died in a single airplane crashes than have died in all the nuke related energy production incidents, ever. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_and_radiation_accidents_by_death_toll https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_and_radiation_... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_Airlines_Flight_123 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_Airlines_Flight_123 If you want to include ground based deaths 911 was close to 3k people dead.