Probably the biggest issue of modern time is understanding why we haven’t transitioned to nuclear power, fixing that, and preventing the same society-wide mistake in the future
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Is this difficult to understand? Seems kind of obvious
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What’s the root cause tho? I’m not so sure
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Things melting down in horrific visceral fashion, right? Increased cancer rates from a coal plant is nerd shit to be worried about. People like action movies not statistics textbooks
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What made the meltdowns horrific? There were some fires with relatively insignificant human health impact. I believe the bomb fallout was deliberately linked with power risks. Seems odd that we still can’t intangible this though , maybe same parties in power?
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My perception from old media is the bomb was a huge success and we will use nuclear power to build the future of America!
Reading the Wikipedia list of accidents, I think there’s just a lot more than either of us know about. Plus a few big ones that we do know the names of.
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The accidents were all pretty trivial compared to coal and chemical stuff. It was/is an orchestrated campaign
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Coal plants regularly blow up and cause deaths?
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Mines mostly. Stuff like this
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okay well we're not considering uranium mines and that seems outside the scope for most people
room to make an action movie about coal mine collapse destroying a town but idk if it's going to move the needle like the strange power of a melting down reactor core
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