• Crisps@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    While true when everything works, people don’t want to live near a nuclear power plant because sometimes there are accidents. They are rare, but severe when they happen. Also because nobody wants to live in sight of one, it affects how easy it is to sell land and property.

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      The probability of such accidents are waaaay to overestimated by the general population. Take a look at this: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/death-rates-from-energy-production-per-twh

      it shows the deaths per kWh for various sources of energy. Nuclear power is really as safe as wind and solar. Nuclear power is sooooo safe honestly. But coal? We have global climate change, dirty air, smog, … and radioactive materials in the atmosphere due to the coal 😅 Fun fact: Way more radioactive materials are spewed into the atmosphere due to burning coal than is actually by nuclear power plants.

      The human emotions are waaaay too inaccurate in this situation here

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        1 year ago

        Not disagreeing. We need more nuclear. Just saying people are scared of a major event than the constant low grade radiation.

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        1 year ago

        I love that chart and I’ve posted it in several discussions about the safety of nuclear. A lot of people have weirdly volatile reactions to it though. It’s really hard for them to believe that nuclear is on par with renewables.