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Not sure why anyone would downvote this. Legitimate or not, a lot of public fear about nuclear energy is due to the first three names on that list.
by standardUser 5y ago
Not sure why anyone would downvote this. Legitimate or not, a lot of public fear about nuclear energy is due to the first three names on that list.
- sofixa 5y agoBecause it is not legitimate.
- standardUser 5y agoBut it is the correct answer to the question of why people have turned their back on nuclear energy.
- Ericson2314 5y agoBecause there is no major contamination from Fukushima and Three Mile Island. I'm convinced most people got confused with the Fukushima and the actual Tsunami damage to Japan at some subconscious level.
- michaelcampbell 5y agoI suspect he's saying people are AFRAID of nuclear because of those incidents; not that the fear is rational.
- Ericson2314 5y agoPP said it's about perception, true are false. That I agreed with. But GP had no qualifications. > When a solar plant breaks down or a dam bursts the worst that can happen is a minor inconvenience. When you get a nuclear meltdown you get land uninhabitable for literal millennia and global contamination. This is a not a fair comparison if we are talking facts not perceptions. It ignores issues of storage that doesn't make the energy outputs commensurate. It ignores the constant polution and health issue stemming from fossil fuel power plants when nothing goes wrong --- since the ability to use solar and wind wihtout those is as-of-yet undemonstrated at scale.