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Carbon producing power generation kills literally millions a year. Nuclear has killed 1 person in my living memory.
by 93po 4y ago
Carbon producing power generation kills literally millions a year. Nuclear has killed 1 person in my living memory.
- rob74 4y agocitation needed - and whenever I read this claim, I wonder: if a country is incapable of regulating its coal plants well enough so they don't kill people via pollution, will it be capable of regulating its nuclear plants well enough so they don't blow up?
- 93po 4y agoI feel like this is a poor comparison. By default coal is going to pollute and there's very little that can be done in an economical way to counteract this. There are plenty of countries that have banned or have concrete plans to phase out coal, which I would consider the same as regulating against coal plants killing people.
- nine_k 4y agoIn the Chernobyl incident, about 200 first responders died from acute radiation effects in a short while. Still likely fewer than the number of deaths in coal mines; like a decade of mining fatalities in the US alone: https://arlweb.msha.gov/stats/centurystats/coalstats.asp https://arlweb.msha.gov/stats/centurystats/coalstats.asp
- 93po 4y ago> in my living memory. I wasn't alive then