Re:The U.S. wind industry now employs more than 100K people
by jimmaswell on Saturday April 22, 2017 @02:14PM
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From the page I found, "more Americans have died from installing rooftop solar than have ever died from the construction or use of American nuclear power plants". On average, nuclear is safer. The likelihood of another Fukashima is even lower now that it's happened and been documented.
Re:The U.S. wind industry now employs more than 100K people
by mambodog on Saturday April 22, 2017 @02:37PM
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I think you mean 'on average, nuclear is safer than rooftop solar'. How about nuclear vs. large scale solar? Large scale solar + wind? These are more realistic equivalents to nuclear.
Re:The U.S. wind industry now employs more than 100K people
by jimmaswell on Saturday April 22, 2017 @04:08PM
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This still seems to just mention rooftop but it's still telling how far US nuclear is below its next runner up, Hydro - .1 to 5 deaths/trillion kWh
Re:The U.S. wind industry now employs more than 100K people
by jimmaswell on Saturday April 22, 2017 @06:45PM
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Re:The U.S. wind industry now employs more than 100K people
by anigbrowl on Saturday April 22, 2017 @04:55PM
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That's certainly a delicious cherry you picked. I'm pro nuclear myself, but ignoring people's legitimate worries about worst-case scenarios is not a great advocacy strategy.
Re:The U.S. wind industry now employs more than 100K people
by jimmaswell on Saturday April 22, 2017 @06:46PM
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It's hardly cherry picking. Look at this chart: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2012/06/10/energys-d...
Re:The U.S. wind industry now employs more than 100K people
by anigbrowl on Monday April 24, 2017 @05:52PM
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The externalities of nuclear disasters/errors don't halt at borders, diffuse though they are.
Re:The U.S. wind industry now employs more than 100K people
by rawrRAWR on Saturday April 22, 2017 @03:54PM
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This can quickly change, when one terrorist attack happens on a single nuclear plant.
Not so much with wind or solar, though ;)
Re:The U.S. wind industry now employs more than 100K people
by jimmaswell on Saturday April 22, 2017 @04:14PM
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From what I'm seeing in this PDF, it's not that much of a concern. http://www.iaea.org/inis/collection/NCLCollectionStore/_Publ...
The analogy you make to solar ignores that the failure modes of nuclear are much worse than solar.