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Re:Fukushima Reactor: TEPCO robot aims to extract nuclear fuel by cedws on Tuesday October 08, 2024 @11:57AM (#41778801)
Yeah it’s all fine, it only displaced a few thousand people from their homes and made an area an uninhabitable wasteland. It’s only going to cost ~$500 billion in total for cleanup[0]. Nevermind the capital loss from the destruction of the power plant itself. Nuclear is definitely a great idea.

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_nuclear_accident_c...

Sarcasm aside, it's extremely frustrating when deaths are the only dimension people use to compare with other electricity sources. You can't just put on a blindfold and ignore all of the other factors. Just because only a handful of deaths can be directly attributed, doesn't mean nuclear isn't an absolute nightmare when it goes wrong.

Re:Fukushima Reactor: TEPCO robot aims to extract nuclear fuel by immibis on Tuesday October 08, 2024 @12:27PM (#41779086)
Directly attributable deaths, at that. Who knows how many equivalent nondeaths occurred by subtracting half a year from a hundred people?