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Re:MIT-designed project achieves major advance toward fusion... by krageon on Thursday September 09, 2021 @11:16AM (#28470610)
> even if the danger is very low

The day-to-day danger perhaps, but it's kind of hilarious in a sad way to read this right after fukushima spent god knows how long leaking radioactive shit into the ocean.

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Re:MIT-designed project achieves major advance toward fusion... by phscguy on Thursday September 09, 2021 @05:50PM (#28475073)
Yeah. It's these low probability events that scare people away from fission. Fossil fuel pollution kills millions of people per year. Like more than 5 million. How many has nuclear power killed in 60 years? Probably less than 100,000 as a conservative estimate. Events like Chernobyl and Fukushima are sensational and radiation is a sexy topic. People dieing of lung cancer from air carcinogens produced by coal burning is not.
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