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Death toll isn't the only metric for accident severity. Environmental pollution is really important too. And with Fukushima we were kinda lucky. It was still a
by wkat4242 2y ago
Death toll isn't the only metric for accident severity. Environmental pollution is really important too.
And with Fukushima we were kinda lucky. It was still a double meltdown with several hydrogen explosions and could have been much worse.
- jovial_cavalier 2y agoI think I already addressed this point. You also need to think about second-order effects, but like I said, there are second order effects to all of these solutions. Just because nuclear's side effects are more easy to dramatize doesn't mean that it is necessarily more deadly / harmful to the environment.