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What's probably more interesting than the incident itself is that it elicited well over a hundred comments on this site. Explosions happen at natural gas plant
by beloch 2mo ago
What's probably more interesting than the incident itself is that it elicited well over a hundred comments on this site. Explosions happen at natural gas plants semi-frequently, few make the news, and fewer still are likely to get much attention here.
- Mawr 2mo agoIt's standard human bias — a plane falling out of the sky with 200 people on it once a year is a major catastrophe we all know about within hours, but 40_000 people dying per year in road accidents is just a statistic. Besides, driving can't be all that unsafe — I do it every day and I'm fine! Similarly here: something irrelevant happened at a nuclear power plant? PANIC! But 100_000 people died last year from coal plants dumping their waste products into the air we all breathe? Meh, who cares, how boring.
- butvacuum 2mo agoA more accurate one: Comanche Peak Unit 1 SCRAM'd because the 2021 snowpocolypse caused a feed water issue... Good luck finding that as more than a footnote. source: https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/event-status/event/2021/20210215en https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/event-status/...
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