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Can someone spoon feed me here? I read the article but didn't notice the part where the author explains why nuclear power is too safe.
by calderknight 4y ago
Can someone spoon feed me here? I read the article but didn't notice the part where the author explains why nuclear power is too safe.
- sonzohan 4y agoA great example is radiation testing for plant workers. Consider under current regulations the allowable radiation levels for entering/leaving the plant is so low that workers have sounded radioactivity alarms for eating bananas.
- rdiddly 4y agoHe means too costly, because of the level of safety we demand.
- calderknight 4y agoThanks
- mpweiher 4y agoAnd because it's too costly, we use other forms of energy production that are far less safe instead. So making nuclear ultra-extra-special safe actually kills more people and is more costly than having slightly less safe nuclear would. Or as I tend to put it: fear of nuclear is far deadlier than nuclear.