Re:Japan to invest on nuclear energy in major policy shift
by zzzeek on Thursday December 22, 2022 @07:04PM
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always that mono-metric of "deaths" and not, "350,000 people had to leave their homes and 37 million acres of land wont be inhabitable for 3000-20000 years" (actual stats on chernobyl)
Re:Japan to invest on nuclear energy in major policy shift
by panick21_ on Thursday December 22, 2022 @07:20PM
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Again most of that is political. People living in the exclusion don't have significantly higher rates of cancer.
And again, this is soviet union reactor technology that doesn't apply anyway.
Instead of moving those people investing even 10% that amount of money in new hospitals, trains and bike lanes (or name X other things) would have saved far more people.
So if you want to be really hard core you could say, right, we should never built that type of reactor again. But we have never done so in the West anyway so its really none issue in any rational discussion about energy policy.
And history shows that pretty much every nation that has tried it, including the Soviet Union did it with high safety.
Can you name a single nation that has tried to use nuclear power on the large scale and has failed with a large number of deaths?
So it really is like, if you just do it, its most likely the safest thing you can do.