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Re:Nuclear plant shutdowns tied to coal pollution, decreased... by WalterBright on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @04:08AM (#14040539)
> Chernobyl argument

Consider airliners. Airliners have been around for 80 years, and get substantially safer every decade. This is a statistical fact. Every crash is used as a learning experience and designs, procedures, and training is adjusted as a result.

There's no reason to believe that such does not apply to nuclear power stations.

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Re:Nuclear plant shutdowns tied to coal pollution, decreased... by mpweiher on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @05:20AM (#14040808)
One of the biggest problems with nuclear is that we aren't building new plants.
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Re:Nuclear plant shutdowns tied to coal pollution, decreased... by douche on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @09:16AM (#14041830)
Outside of submarines and aircraft carriers, that is. We seem to have those pretty figured out.

You'd think that nuclear propulsion would be a natural choice for the biggest of the enormous cargo container ships that are currently burning millions of gallons of dirty, dirty bunker fuel instead.

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