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Re:Tokyo High Court slashes damages to Fukushima nuclear dis... by gamegoblin on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @02:54PM (#22620005)
A person with an AK-47 and TNT can't render vast tracts of land uninhabitable for decades in the way that nuclear waste can.

I am very pro-nuclear in the US (and the EU etc.), but I think the concern about nuclear in potentially unstable nations is absolutely valid.

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Re:Tokyo High Court slashes damages to Fukushima nuclear dis... by webkike on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @03:52PM (#22620551)
Sure they can. They are called minefields.
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Re:Tokyo High Court slashes damages to Fukushima nuclear dis... by gowld on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @03:15PM (#22620199)
The Chernobyl exclusion zone is 1000sqmi (32mi by 32mi). That's not so vast if it's in low populated area.
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Re:Tokyo High Court slashes damages to Fukushima nuclear dis... by Ididntdothis on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @03:20PM (#22620245)
That would be a significant area for most western countries.
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Re:Tokyo High Court slashes damages to Fukushima nuclear dis... by gpm on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @04:42PM (#22621028)
It's a mistake to think of Chernobyl as anything near worst case, there were absolutely huge containment efforts that took place after that disaster that might not take place after a similar future disaster.
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