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minus-squareAsifall@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·1 year agoIronically, burning fossil fuels is actually making large swaths of the earth uninhabitable. Even if you include nuclear disasters nuclear is outrageously safe https://www.statista.com/statistics/494425/death-rate-worldwide-by-energy-source/ And when operating properly coal plants irradiate their surroundings significantly more than nuclear plants https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/coal-ash-is-more-radioactive-than-nuclear-waste/ And we actually can plan for natural disasters. Fukushima was avoidable https://carnegieendowment.org/2012/03/06/why-fukushima-was-preventable-pub-47361 Also it’s worth noting that most of the world has the luxury of not building nuclear plants on seismically active, volcanic islands.
Ironically, burning fossil fuels is actually making large swaths of the earth uninhabitable. Even if you include nuclear disasters nuclear is outrageously safe
https://www.statista.com/statistics/494425/death-rate-worldwide-by-energy-source/
And when operating properly coal plants irradiate their surroundings significantly more than nuclear plants
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/coal-ash-is-more-radioactive-than-nuclear-waste/
And we actually can plan for natural disasters. Fukushima was avoidable https://carnegieendowment.org/2012/03/06/why-fukushima-was-preventable-pub-47361
Also it’s worth noting that most of the world has the luxury of not building nuclear plants on seismically active, volcanic islands.