• HughJanus@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Honest question: why shouldn’t we be afraid?

    but fear that we’d do another Chernobyl has scared us away from it.

    Chernobyl turned an entire city into a radioactive wasteland for the next 10k years. Same goes for 3-mile island and Fukushima. The last of which was just over 10 years ago.

    Are we so arrogant to think that that could never happen again? What’s changed?

    • bouh@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Chernobyl is a city inhabited today. In fact, the reactors right next to the ones that burnt were still producing energy a few years ago.

      Hopefully your ignorance won’t last 10k years and you’ll learn that nuclear is far less dangerous than your car for example.