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Re:Nuclear turn green as EU parliament approves new taxonomy by mort96 on Thursday July 07, 2022 @11:20AM (#32015218)
You're not gonna convince many sceptical people by looking only at death counts. How many people had to be relocated? How large of an area is now uninhabitable? How many would have died if our luck had been just a bit worse that day? Is there anything about the technology in all currently operating power plants which completely rules out a worst-case meltdown scenario?

People are mainly afraid of nuclear because the worst-case scenario is so insanely ridiculously bad, not because it maintains a high stable death rate.

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Re:Nuclear turn green as EU parliament approves new taxonomy by logicchains on Thursday July 07, 2022 @11:55AM (#32015646)
>How many people had to be relocated? How large of an area is now uninhabitable? How many would have died if our luck had been just a bit worse that day?

_Hiroshima_ was re-inhabited just a few years later, and it was literally hit by a nuclear bomb.

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Re:Nuclear turn green as EU parliament approves new taxonomy by toyg on Thursday July 07, 2022 @12:29PM (#32016067)
And they are still paying the price for it. https://k1project.columbia.edu/news/hiroshima-and-nagasaki

They were "lucky", btw: "since the bombs were detonated so far above the ground, there was very little contamination—especially in contrast to nuclear test sites such as those in Nevada"

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Re:Nuclear turn green as EU parliament approves new taxonomy by mort96 on Thursday July 07, 2022 @12:41PM (#32016232)
Ōkuma, Fukushima is still largely a ghost town from what I can tell. Only parts of the town have been declared successfully decontaminated with residents allowed to return, and only as late as 2019.
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Re:Nuclear turn green as EU parliament approves new taxonomy by Krssst on Thursday July 07, 2022 @11:39AM (#32015456)
If we only replace coal with gas and leave climate change go awry, several order of magnitudes more will become inhabitable.
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