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Because in practice/empirically it is safer than the alternatives even when things do go wrong. And they go wrong very rarely.
by mpweiher 6y ago
Because in practice/empirically it is safer than the alternatives even when things do go wrong.
And they go wrong very rarely.
- Krasnol 6y agoStatistics won't help you if one of those "every 20 years" disasters hit a highly populated area like Europe. The technology will still look "safe" on paper but you'd have depopulated a huge area and maybe even killed people or keep on killing through cancer.
- mpweiher 6y agoThis is not "statistics" it is simple facts. Japan is highly populated.
- spark3k 6y ago"Very rarely" is not enough to justify thousands of years of uninhabitable square kilometres.