Re:Eye-witness stories from Chernobyl
by fusiongyro on Tuesday June 13, 2017 @10:31AM
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Water is less scary than uranium. I agree with you, but it seems to be futile to convince people because there's just more movies about the harm of radiation than deaths by flooding. They keep rebuilding New Orleans and living in coastal Florida too.
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There's a chicken-and-egg situation here -- people are never going to get comfortable with nuclear while politicians are leading the FUD-charge.
Yet we keep being told, "Oh no, it's safe this time. Really." and then Fukushima happens. Not to mention cleanup costs that started at $50B are now estimated to surpass $0.2T. I would be surprised if they don't double a couple more times before all is said and done, and that's fractions of a trillion dollars.
Because compared to the cost of climate change, really is was safe this time, even after Fukushima. And a substantial fraction of the cost is due to extreme, very likely unwarranted caution, motivated by an unreasonable level of, exactly, fear.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/apr/13/is-it-sa...
Re:Eye-witness stories from Chernobyl
by fusiongyro on Tuesday June 13, 2017 @12:58PM
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The point I'm trying to make is that every system has risks and externalities, but for some reason they only get added up when we're talking about nuclear.