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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker 3 Aug 2017

    Contrary to pop. belief, nuclear is the safest major energy source. Our World In Datahttps://goo.gl/pq6wgk 

    10:58 AM - 3 Aug 2017
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      2.  🌊 🌊 ❄Marc Slavin ❄ ❄Vote Blue  ❄️  🌊 🌊‏ @MarcVegan 3 Aug 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @andyskuce

        Solar and wind need to be included otherwise wrong impression possible.

        2 replies 0 retweets 14 likes
      3. Christian Hachmann‏ @ChristianHachm 3 Aug 2017
        Replying to @MarcVegan @sapinker @andyskuce

        The conclusion in my opinion: Getting rid of coal should be no.1 priority!

        0 replies 1 retweet 13 likes
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      2. "No Shit" Sherlock‏ @PunishmentHurts 3 Aug 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        cause it sounds like a great plan for a few hundred years but really bad for hundreds of thousands of years

        1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
      3. Aaron Gretsinger‏ @aaronomus 3 Aug 2017
        Replying to @PunishmentHurts @sapinker

        Hundreds of thousands of years? I know we're supposed to care about the future, but that's nuts. Civilization is only 10,000 years old ffs,

        3 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
      4. "No Shit" Sherlock‏ @PunishmentHurts 3 Aug 2017
        Replying to @aaronomus @sapinker

        OK, so a thousand years. There have been some meltdowns already, let's postulate one every 10 years and look out 1,000 - a hundred?

        4 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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      6. "No Shit" Sherlock‏ @PunishmentHurts 3 Aug 2017
        Replying to @ReverseHitler88 @aaronomus @sapinker

        oh, MODERN ones! So all those ancient ones are gone? What did we do with them? Push them into the sea? (Sorry, that sounds great.)

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      2. Geoffrey Miller‏Verified account @primalpoly 4 Aug 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @SimonMagus

        The lack of quantitative thinking & risk/benefit analysis in these comments is really depressing. Did anyone even read the article? #sad

        7 replies 0 retweets 12 likes
      3. Shea Bigsby‏ @SheaBigs84 4 Aug 2017
        Replying to @primalpoly @sapinker @SimonMagus

        Nuclear is the safest *current* option, for sure. But let's be ready to rethink this over the next 20 years as tech changes the game.

        0 replies 0 retweets 3 likes
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      2. Jake Knight‏ @knightwithak 3 Aug 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        There's a big problem with nuclear, however: an accident lasts a very long time+has significant complications, not all known at the time.

        2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
      3. Dan Barrios-O'Neill‏ @DBarriosONeill 3 Aug 2017
        Replying to @knightwithak @sapinker

        You could quite easily substitute 'nuclear' for 'fossil fuels' in the context of climate change.

        1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
      4. Sean JS Chen‏ @seanjschen 4 Aug 2017
        Replying to @DBarriosONeill @knightwithak @sapinker

        No. In context of climate change, fossil fuels are magnitudes worse than nuclear

        1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
      5. Dan Barrios-O'Neill‏ @DBarriosONeill 4 Aug 2017
        Replying to @seanjschen @knightwithak @sapinker

        That was my point. Clearly not well made.

        0 replies 0 retweets 5 likes
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      2. Howard Chu‏ @hyc_symas 3 Aug 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        The report is pretty meaningless, based on a 2007 study. Doesn't take Fukushima 2011 into account. Impact from Fukushima still spreading.

        2 replies 1 retweet 4 likes
      3. Grey Area‏ @tardomatic 3 Aug 2017
        Replying to @hyc_symas @sapinker

        You could assign all the tsunami deaths to Fukushima, and it changes nothing.

        1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
      4. Howard Chu‏ @hyc_symas 3 Aug 2017
        Replying to @tardomatic @sapinker

        You haven't accounted for the more far-reaching effects. Mutations and death of marine life, disruption of global food chain.

        3 replies 0 retweets 3 likes
      5. Howard Chu‏ @hyc_symas 3 Aug 2017
        Replying to @hyc_symas @tardomatic @sapinker

        It's not like a nuclear disaster is a momentary event. Gift keeps on giving.http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-07-14/locals-resist-plan-dump-radioactive-material-fukushima-ocean …

        3 replies 0 retweets 3 likes
      6. Neonomide‏ @Neonomide 4 Aug 2017
        Replying to @hyc_symas @tardomatic @sapinker

        Those doses of tritium are harmless to living beings.

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      7. Christopher Willis‏ @BeCurieus 8 Aug 2017
        Replying to @Neonomide @hyc_symas and

        Ya, zerohead is not from ocean scientists, I recommend this instead least you be lead by the blind http://www.whoi.edu/page.do?pid=127297 …

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      8. Grey Area‏ @tardomatic 8 Aug 2017
        Replying to @BeCurieus @Neonomide and

        That accident, might someday take a few human lives. Again, unless it takes _millions_ nuclear power will remain safer per unit power.

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      9. Christopher Willis‏ @BeCurieus 8 Aug 2017
        Replying to @tardomatic @Neonomide and

        It would actually need killed tens or hundreds of millions to make up for the relative few accidents to fossil fuels

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
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