• @RememberTheApollo_
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    241 month ago

    TBF a nuclear incident is not like burning just one house down. It’s burning down the whole city and making it unusable for a decade or ten.

    • @jaschen@lemm.ee
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      131 month ago

      While 100% true for nuclear, the current state of burning fossil fuels is much MUCH worse.

      • @RememberTheApollo_
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        41 month ago

        Yes. Over the long term it will render the planet uninhabitable, or at least close enough to it.

      • @RememberTheApollo_
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        11 month ago

        Yes, maybe… but the point being they could, and often did, rebuild right where they’d been before. Radiation prevents that.

    • @Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca
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      51 month ago

      Why not build it in a remote location then?

      Dams can also produce a lot of hydroelectric power, and a catastrophic failure could also destroy an entire town or more. We just don’t build dams upstream of a large town.

      • Fonzie!
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        11 month ago

        The Chernobyl reactor’s explosion had impacts all the way in West Europe.

        I don’t think you can be remote enough with this.