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vrganjtoday at 6:42 AM2 repliesview on HN

It's been regulated "to death" because it's responsible for some of the worst man-made catastrophes of all time and has made large swaths of land uninhabitable for ~forever.

Move fast and break things this is not.


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Mawrtoday at 7:14 PM

Hilarious hysterical nonsense.

Worst catastrophes? Pick any industrial accident with more than like 10 people killed and you've got nuclear beat. A single plane falls from the sky and you've outdone nuclear.

Large swaths of land? You mean a tiny part of Ukraine?

Keep breathing in the radioactive coal fumes in the air, those are good for you, actually.

dupedtoday at 5:30 PM

It really hasn't though. Fossil fuels kill or disable more people every year than nuclear power has, ever.

Even in terms of radiation accidents, nuclear power generation pales in comparison to orphan sources from medical equipment. Yet you don't see people clamoring on about fewer x-ray or radiological machines.

> made large swaths of land uninhabitable for ~forever.

Are you talking about places besides the Chernobyl exclusion zone?

And why compare the small amount of area made dangerous by nuclear accidents to the entire planet being destroyed by fossil fuels?