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Every time Fukushima is brought up, I am baffled how everyone remembers the nuclear incident, but not the many thousands of people that died from the tsunami. A
by RealityVoid 5y ago
Every time Fukushima is brought up, I am baffled how everyone remembers the nuclear incident, but not the many thousands of people that died from the tsunami. And ye, people are always "Let's not build nuclear" not "let's not build stuff next to the shore" - one is deemed an acceptable risk, the other is not. Why?
- dane-pgp 5y agoIf you build something (non-nuclear) next to the shore, that doesn't increase my risk of dying from a tsunami. Also, if I choose to live in a certain location, the risk of a tsunami affecting that location doesn't change very much over time, whereas it's harder to predict whether a nuclear power station will be well managed and maintained decades into the future (and there's also uncertainty about where new nuclear power stations may be built).