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Re:Germany shuts down half of its remaining nuclear plants by davidhariri on Friday December 31, 2021 @02:27PM (#29751588)
This is so wrong. If you look at the death rate from those incidents and compare them to the death rates of literally any other source of energy (including other renewables), they are much much lower.

Nuclear is proven to be our most safe, clean and renewable source of energy.

Source: https://www.statista.com/statistics/494425/death-rate-worldw...

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Re:Germany shuts down half of its remaining nuclear plants by wildmanxx on Friday December 31, 2021 @02:42PM (#29751759)
Maybe convince somebody then to have final storage for nuclear waste anywhere close to where they live. Once this crap is in your backyard, the armchair philosophers find excuses really fast.

Similar with wind turbines, but at least those are so small scale that you can convince closeby towns fast by just letting them participate in the profits. Different story for leaking barrels stored underground.

(And yes, that's how this crap ends up. Just google Asse II and then let's discuss German cleanliness again.)

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Re:Germany shuts down half of its remaining nuclear plants by WalterBright on Friday December 31, 2021 @02:43PM (#29751777)
Who likes the poisoning of areas around coal mines?
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Re:Germany shuts down half of its remaining nuclear plants by Ekaros on Friday December 31, 2021 @02:59PM (#29751946)
Or plants. Need to remember how many cities used to look... Not pretty with all the particulates...
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Re:Germany shuts down half of its remaining nuclear plants by errantmind on Friday December 31, 2021 @02:40PM (#29751740)
It isn't about averages, it is about perceived tail risk.
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