Re:How fear of nuclear power is hurting the environment
by antris on Monday October 17, 2016 @10:49AM
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I agree that their intentions are good, but you have to draw a line somewhere between cost and safety. Nothing we do is completely risk-free. You can get choked eating food, you can get into a car accident, yet food and transportation industries haven't been regulated to death. Why should nuclear be singled out, when it's already the safest form of energy of all time?
Re:How fear of nuclear power is hurting the environment
by ekun on Monday October 17, 2016 @01:05PM
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It's not that the regulations are ill-intentioned but currently they are preventing safer technologies from being implemented because it costs billions of dollars to get technologies licensed properly.
Re:How fear of nuclear power is hurting the environment
by ageofwant on Monday October 17, 2016 @10:56AM
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Fine, now please apply the same logic to coal plants that kill 7000000 people/year.
Re:How fear of nuclear power is hurting the environment
by sqeaky on Monday October 17, 2016 @04:16PM
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7 million per year. This seems outright false despite being as pro nuclear as I am.
Can you back this up?
Re:How fear of nuclear power is hurting the environment
by antris on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @01:42AM
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I think the number is actually the total for global deaths in air pollution: http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2014/air-pollut...
Coal is not the only contributor, but still a major one:
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1632163/670000-deaths...
670,000 reported deaths because of coal annually in China
The politicians are not "drafting rules to require more safety" just for fun. Not regulating nuclear energy makes it cheaper but seems rather unsafe. (because humans, you know)