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Re:Nuclear power is the best climate-change solution by RcouF1uZ4gsC on Friday November 05, 2021 @11:25PM (#29127241)
> (1) When nuclear accidents happen, they suddenly overturn the lives of a LOT of commoners all at once as opposed to slow and creeping and often "statistically determined" impact of other energy tech

Hydroelectric dams have the same issue. I also bet, that if one of those gigawatt lithium battery storage facilities had a fire, it would be a very bad day for people around them.

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Re:Nuclear power is the best climate-change solution by chii on Friday November 05, 2021 @11:49PM (#29127354)
the dam water would flow away at some point, and in a few years, the area would be fixed up and re-populated.

The fire at the lithium battery station would burn out after a while, and the area repopulated very soon.

The nuclear waste land like Chernobyl is uninhabitable for the foreseeable future.

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