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Whenever I have regrets, I remind myself that I can't know what would have happened if I had went down that other road, maybe a poor decision saved me from a wo
by jazzyjackson 5y ago
Whenever I have regrets, I remind myself that I can't know what would have happened if I had went down that other road, maybe a poor decision saved me from a worse fate.
If we had scaled up on nuclear, there's no way every reactor would have had the best engineers, best contractors, best governance -- there would certainly be some that cut corners or got built on a fault line or vulnerable to some other unpredictable disaster or terrorist attack.
- nice_byte 5y agothat would still be better than what we ended up with. i'll take a dozen fukushima type events over the span of 20-30yrs over slowly but steadily ruining the planet every day.
- tuatoru 5y agoI'll take a dozen Fukushimas every year (deaths from radiation: 1; deaths from evacuation stress: 273) over the hundreds of thousands killed every year by air pollution from coal burning.
- goatlover 5y agoIt's wild how a couple of nuclear incidents so horrified the public imagination, when in reality the death toll and pollution from more conventional energy sources is magnitudes worse than nuclear.
- guscost 5y agoWell, that was a tsunami that killed ~10,000 people, so maybe not exactly like Fukushima.