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Re:Tokyo High Court slashes damages to Fukushima nuclear dis... by mcguire on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @02:34PM (#22619802)
"Nuclear run by the US military? Very safe."

Are you sure? Would we know?

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Re:Tokyo High Court slashes damages to Fukushima nuclear dis... by bumby on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @02:40PM (#22619862)
It's not immediately clear what they were referring to. Maybe they're referring to the nuclear powered warship record?

"they have amassed over 5700 reactor-years of safe operation."[1]

[1]https://www.mofa.go.jp/region/n-america/us/security/fact0604...

Edit: On second thought, there seems to be more than I was expecting, especially early in the atomic era:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_military_nuclear_accid...

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Re:Tokyo High Court slashes damages to Fukushima nuclear dis... by Godel_unicode on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @02:44PM (#22619899)
Given that we have heard about safety issues from the nuclear establishment in the US, and we have heard about all kinds of ship issues from the Navy, I feel confident that if there were problems we would have heard about them.

False negatives are what they are, but the preponderance of the evidence is on the side of safety. Can we say the same for fossil fuels? Is it really worth staying on them because of some hypothetical beyond-top-secret problems that probably don't exist?

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