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Re:Deaths per unit of energy for various sources by mistermann on Wednesday March 16, 2011 @02:47PM (#2333326)
>If the education level in all industrial countries was raised to the point that the average person felt they had a strong understanding of nuclear power

Considering the average person seems to be pushing the limits of their mental abilities differentiating between the debt and the deficit, for example, I for one am not optimistic it's even possible to have widespread understanding of nuclear power.

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Re:Deaths per unit of energy for various sources by joe_the_user on Wednesday March 16, 2011 @03:43PM (#2333548)
Well, the alternative to understanding a particular technology is blind faith in a particular technology.

The world's dictators show us only some of the problem with blind faith. The other problem with blind faith is that it tends to turn to blind hatred when disappointed, especially when a demagogue is close at hand to harness that blind faith in a different direction.

Choose whichever side of the political spectrum you consider ridiculously uninformed. Them in power is the alternative to a populace that encompass how the heck our society operates.

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