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Re:EU experts to say nuclear power qualifies for green inves... by didibus on Saturday March 27, 2021 @02:17PM (#26604212)
Ya, but the challenge, and I say that as a supporter of Nuclear in general, is that you don't sign up for the experiment. If you're in the radius of the plant if it were to fail, you might be wary of it.
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Re:EU experts to say nuclear power qualifies for green inves... by pitaj on Saturday March 27, 2021 @02:18PM (#26604218)
People don't sign up for pollution from fossil fuels either.
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Re:EU experts to say nuclear power qualifies for green inves... by didibus on Saturday March 27, 2021 @02:44PM (#26604436)
It's an emotional response though, like how there are still more people with a parallizing fear of flight that don't have a problem hopping into a car.

Like I said, I'm not justifying being against Nuclear, but explaining the challenge with Nuclear's general acceptance, there is a fear response from people, and it'll need to be curbed and addressed. That fear response is due to the grandiose nature of a Nuclear failure which fossil fuel don't have, even if they kill you slowly and might lead to world ending catastrophies.

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Re:EU experts to say nuclear power qualifies for green inves... by kcmastrpc on Saturday March 27, 2021 @02:23PM (#26604257)
Yes, they do. If you drive a car, heat your home via gas/electricity, use the internet (to post this) -- you signed up for it.
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Re:EU experts to say nuclear power qualifies for green inves... by pitaj on Saturday March 27, 2021 @02:24PM (#26604269)
Okay then by the same logic people do sign up for nuclear by using the electricity for their homes, the internet, etc
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Re:EU experts to say nuclear power qualifies for green inves... by kergonath on Saturday March 27, 2021 @03:32PM (#26604871)
How so? Do the particulates and aerosols avoid me breathing them in because I don’t drive a car and use electric heating? How does it work?

Pollution from fossil fuel is unavoidable in quite a lot of places regardless of your life style. Also, much more deadly than anything related to nuclear so far.

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Re:EU experts to say nuclear power qualifies for green inves... by oblio on Saturday March 27, 2021 @02:44PM (#26604435)
That's not how it works :-)

I don't smoke but until they started banning smoking everywhere, plenty of people would sign me up for passive smoking without asking me anything.

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