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Re:Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants by pqtyw on Thursday April 30, 2026 @12:47PM (#47965147)
No? It's like saying that its safe to have more zoos with tigers because tigers pretty much never get out of their cages and get a to kill people unless there is some massive fuckup (i.e. you let soviet engineers supervise your tiger)
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Re:Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants by Kon5ole on Thursday April 30, 2026 @02:56PM (#47966746)
>No? It's like saying that its safe to have more zoos with tigers

No, then the original statement would have to have been "we should keep paying big bills so we can have safe nuclear", but it wasn't.

To be more direct, using statistics about incidents to claim something is safe a fallacy. Something extremely dangerous that is kept safe through effort and expense won't appear in the stats until you remove the effort and expense.

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Re:Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants by peterfirefly on Thursday April 30, 2026 @02:14PM (#47966255)
After genetically engineering a super tiger and keeping it hungry.
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