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Re:Fusion reactors: Not what they’re cracked up to be by VLM on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @11:17AM (#14203665)
"The sense of scale is entirely lacking."

Agree and it extends to risks. Better to kill 100K people per year with coal, than possibly maybe hundreds might die (but almost certainly zero actually will) in a nuclear accident. Your diet and your car are far more likely to kill you than global warming.

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Re:Fusion reactors: Not what they’re cracked up to be by macintux on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @11:48AM (#14204024)
> Your diet and your car are far more likely to kill you than global warming.

True for me. True for my (entirely hypothetical and never likely to exist) grandchildren? Less clear.

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