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I just saw the Fukushima documentary over the weekend, no thanks.

by pjmlp 6mo ago

RobotToaster 6mo ago
Fukushima only killed one person https://ourworldindata.org/what-was-the-death-toll-from-chernobyl-and-fukushima https://ourworldindata.org/what-was-the-death-toll-from-cher...
- pjmlp 6mo ago
  "No one died directly from the disaster. However, 40 to 50 people were injured as a result of physical injury from the blast, or radiation burns." Selective view of the victims?
  - lionkor 6mo ago
    Brown coal power kills that many people in a good year directly, not mentioning the long term health effects of exposure to brown coal smoke (even if filtered).
    - pjmlp 6mo ago
      Yeah people are sniffing lines of coal. /s
      - lionkor 6mo ago
        Lol, but really coal power plants are more dangerous work environments, coal mining as well, and then of course there's the pollution (which, opposed to nuclear, isn't bottled up and stored, and instead just exhausted).
      - Tangurena2 6mo ago
        Based on the number of coal license plates here in KY, yes, they sure do sniff lines of coal. https://secure2.kentucky.gov/kytc/plates/web/LicensePlate/Index/c1a92e2e-4843-45d1-88fc-cf2ca26ca621#plateAnchor https://secure2.kentucky.gov/kytc/plates/web/LicensePlate/In... One almost never sees any of the other 11 black license plates. I do expect that to change as the new (black) firefighter license plates replace the old red ones.
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- the_mitsuhiko 6mo ago
  That's great, but it displaced more than 150.000 people permanently.
lionkor 6mo ago
As opposed to brown coal? Because that's what we got instead, and it's much more deadly, much more radioactive, and the toxic waste it produces is not properly controlled like for nuclear. Of course pollution looks bad when you have to barrel it, instead of just shitting it out into the environment (atmosphere, etc) and saying "we'll stop doing this in a couple decades, don't worry". I understand that brown coal isn't what people had in mind when they opposed nuclear; they would rather have wind power, solar power, maybe magical fairy dust, but they didn't consider that, practically, we will stick with brown coal.
- pjmlp 6mo ago
  No worries, paper straws will save the day. We could start by actually having a DB that works, instead of forcing people to use cars if they want to actually reach their destination on time. And bus connections that drive more often per villages and small towns than once per hour.

I just saw the Fukushima documentary over the weekend, no thanks.

by pjmlp 6mo ago

I just saw the Fukushima documentary over the weekend, no thanks.

Fukushima only killed one person https://ourworldindata.org/what-was-the-death-toll-from-chernobyl-and-fukushima https://ourworldindata.org/what-was-the-death-toll-from-cher...

pjmlp 6mo ago
"No one died directly from the disaster. However, 40 to 50 people were injured as a result of physical injury from the blast, or radiation burns." Selective view of the victims?
- lionkor 6mo ago
  Brown coal power kills that many people in a good year directly, not mentioning the long term health effects of exposure to brown coal smoke (even if filtered).
  - pjmlp 6mo ago
    Yeah people are sniffing lines of coal. /s
    - lionkor 6mo ago
      Lol, but really coal power plants are more dangerous work environments, coal mining as well, and then of course there's the pollution (which, opposed to nuclear, isn't bottled up and stored, and instead just exhausted).
    - Tangurena2 6mo ago
      Based on the number of coal license plates here in KY, yes, they sure do sniff lines of coal. https://secure2.kentucky.gov/kytc/plates/web/LicensePlate/Index/c1a92e2e-4843-45d1-88fc-cf2ca26ca621#plateAnchor https://secure2.kentucky.gov/kytc/plates/web/LicensePlate/In... One almost never sees any of the other 11 black license plates. I do expect that to change as the new (black) firefighter license plates replace the old red ones.
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the_mitsuhiko 6mo ago
That's great, but it displaced more than 150.000 people permanently.

lionkor 6mo ago

As opposed to brown coal? Because that's what we got instead, and it's much more deadly, much more radioactive, and the toxic waste it produces is not properly controlled like for nuclear. Of course pollution looks bad when you have to barrel it, instead of just shitting it out into the environment (atmosphere, etc) and saying "we'll stop doing this in a couple decades, don't worry". I understand that brown coal isn't what people had in mind when they opposed nuclear; they would rather have wind power, solar power, maybe magical fairy dust, but they didn't consider that, practically, we will stick with brown coal.

pjmlp 6mo ago
No worries, paper straws will save the day. We could start by actually having a DB that works, instead of forcing people to use cars if they want to actually reach their destination on time. And bus connections that drive more often per villages and small towns than once per hour.