All power sources create waste. Nuclear waste is nowhere near as bad as it's reputation.
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My main problem with nuclear power has always been the incalculable risk, as evidenced by the fact that no insurance company will insure it. I don’t think anyone is less emotional and more rational about potential death than they are
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8 million people die every year because of air pollution, caused mainly by fossil fuels. If only the oil companies were held responsible for those deaths like nuclear power plants are held responsible for the health problems they cause, things would change.
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The point is that nuclear, disasters included, kill fewer people than other energy sources.
Nobody is arguing we shouldn't manage nuclear waste.
But we should be better informed regarding risk:
Radiation vs air pollution - the former is not necessarily worse than the latter
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I understand why there are good reasons to prefer nuclear power to fossil fuel-based power. I think nuclear power is too dangerous to be a reasonable replacement. This is more related to the risk of catastrophic failures than the waste problem.
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You’re still comparing it to fossil fuel, and it seems to be a case of risks with different impacts and probabilities. The numbers for Chernobyl and Fukushima are debatable, the risk of entire areas becoming depopulated and uninhabitable is pretty much exclusive to nuclear power
Sep 27, 2020 · 3:58 PM UTC
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