Re:Why we ignore thousands of daily car crashes
by nightfly on Thursday July 21, 2022 @08:13PM
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I'm overall not anti-nuclear or anything. The lasting cultural, ecological, and economic damage from severe nuclear disasters is _pretty_ significant though and we need to do a better job ensuring they don't happen if we wanna restore peoples trust in the idea of nuclear power.
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Re:Why we ignore thousands of daily car crashes
by dev_tty01 on Friday July 22, 2022 @12:38AM
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Better job? How many people have died due to nuclear energy accidents? If you consider deaths per megawatt, or most any other standard, the nuclear agencies are doing a fantastic job. How low does the risk have to be?
The relative risk of nuclear to coal is unbelievably low yet there is still this irrational ability to weigh risk/reward benefits correctly.
Re:Why we ignore thousands of daily car crashes
by sooheon on Friday July 22, 2022 @12:00AM
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That's what this topic is about -- the standard for nuclear is high (as it should be), but we take the status quo of fossil fuels without a second thought, even though it's immeasurably worse in almost every way.