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by acidburnNSA 3443 days ago
Absolutely! In fact, I spent all of my first 18 years 9.5 miles from a PWR.

Nuclear reactors are currently saving lives, as we speak, by displacing air pollution deaths. By 2013, the world fleet of nukes had saved 1.8 million lives and displaced 65 billion tonnes CO2-eq [1]. Living near nukes is safe because you are more likely to be breathing clean air.

[1] http://cen.acs.org/articles/91/web/2013/04/Nuclear-Power-Pre...