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That's under normal operation, though. As Fukushima has shown us recently, sometimes they break.


...and still kills less people than coal kills during its normal operation.

Also (considering the amount of land that will be submerged underwater by 2100) probably makes less amount of land uninhabitable than coal does.


A lot of technology sometimes break. We still use it. We routinely travel in steel boxes whizzing around at breakneck speeds where any serious mechanical malfunction or error leads to a quick death or very painful long term injury - and millions get hurt this way every year - but we take this risk because the rewards are higher. But with radiation somehow no reward is worth the risk - its radiation, how could you dare to rationally calculate risk/rewards if people can die!!!!11one1oen That's what I call "irrational".




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