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Re:Nuclear power is the best climate-change solution by buitreVirtual on Saturday November 06, 2021 @12:49AM (#29127619)
I think people freak out much more easily when imagining a Hiroshima or Chernobyl or Fukushima in their home towns than when trying to picture the slow but unrelenting worsening of climate conditions over time caused by fossil burning, even though the former is local and unlikely and the latter is global and certain.
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Re:Nuclear power is the best climate-change solution by AlexAndScripts on Saturday November 06, 2021 @03:39AM (#29128211)
One of the issues I've found is that people genuinely believe nuclear reactors run on the same tech as nuclear weapons, and think that if something goes wrong they will have a mushroom cloud.
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Re:Nuclear power is the best climate-change solution by xupybd on Saturday November 06, 2021 @04:22AM (#29128371)
I'm very happy for countries like France to have nuclear power but a little scared of less stable countries. While nuclear weapons require enrichment, dirty bombs or unmaintained power reactors are terrifying.
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Re:Nuclear power is the best climate-change solution by orhmeh09 on Saturday November 06, 2021 @05:50PM (#29134107)
Has there ever been a dirty bomb anywhere?
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