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There are a couple hundred nuclear power plants operating right now, and have been operating for decades. It's a stellar track record to have only 3 big inciden
by pornel 4y ago
There are a couple hundred nuclear power plants operating right now, and have been operating for decades. It's a stellar track record to have only 3 big incidents in over half a century, of which the only major one was also a really dumb outlier. All the nuclear incidents have harmed fewer people coal power plants do every year.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/death-rates-from-energy-production-per-twh https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/death-rates-from-energy-p...
The Bhopal disaster was much deadlier than all nuclear incidents, but we've not used it as an argument that production of pesticides can't be done safely.
- mikeyouse 4y agoThe cleanup from Fukushima is going to cost roughly a trillion dollars.. that's a pretty big hiccup. I wouldn't be surprised if the actual cost of cleaning up Chernobyl was in the same order of magnitude. Humans are terrible at measuring the true cost and likelihood of statistically rare events.
- lesuorac 4y agoMaybe we should just treat nuclear like coal where we don't bother to cleanup the radiation.