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Re:Nuclear SMR welding breakthrough: A year's work now takes... by throw0101c on Wednesday February 21, 2024 @01:02PM (#39457204)
> Western society in general is a bunch of future cancer and heart disease victims all freaking out that they're going to die in a nuclear meltdown […]

Also, COVID (to round out the top three in many places).

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Re:Nuclear SMR welding breakthrough: A year's work now takes... by appointment on Thursday February 22, 2024 @06:16AM (#39465529)
COVID has killed 7 million people since 2019. Airliner* crashes killed 80 people in 2023.

These risks are not of the same class.

* admittedly I'm exaggerating slightly by not considering private and military aviation, but I'm too lazy to find that total.

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Re:Nuclear SMR welding breakthrough: A year's work now takes... by sidewndr46 on Thursday February 22, 2024 @08:50AM (#39467020)
The difference is you can trivially avoid death by airliner crash. You can't practically reduce your chance of death by COVID unless you simply never go outdoors or have visitors
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