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Somewhat disingenuous, you should take into account nuclear black swans which could easily make a whole state uninhabitable forever. That said, what I’ve read (
by cellis 5y ago
Somewhat disingenuous, you should take into account nuclear black swans which could easily make a whole state uninhabitable forever. That said, what I’ve read ( not much, haha ) about newer nuclear thorium tech seems to indicate this argument does not have a future…
- djohnston 5y agoI don't think it's disingenuous at all. The reality is more people are dying every day from pollution caused by fossil fuels than all nuclear power plant accidents combined. The fact that pollution doesn't make a big boom pushes our animal instinct to focus on nuclear as dangerous but it's not even close.
- caoilte 5y agoThe funniest thing is that climate change is now unavoidable and will make nuclear meltdowns even more likely because of the extreme weather events it will trigger. Now seems like the worst possible moment to remove safety restrictions...
- bpodgursky 5y agoThis is a ridiculous stretch.
- renewiltord 5y agoHave you considered that increasing warm temperatures will increase conflict(1) causing people to have road rage? It is quite plausible that a nuclear engineer having a road rage incident is not paying attention and blows up a reactor. Presumably, with increasing temperature, the regulators also have increased chances of road rage causing them to ignore fatal flaws. 1: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=heat+and+aggression&oq=heat+and+aggr#d=gs_qabs&u=%23p%3DJ3BhFnVZGIAJ https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=heat...
- bumby 5y agoThis is such an absurd stretch, I'm not sure if it's meant as satire