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by qwerty456127 1689 days ago
> But if you had to pick one to prevent, preventing the disaster is more important. So before earthquake-proofing the nuclear plant you should worry about earthquake proofing your home.

If I could, I would earthquake-proof and flood-proof everything even where the probability of these dissertation is near-zero. But this obviously isn't going to happen (in fact it baffles me how people insist on living non-proof way even in areas where disastrous floods actually happen every now and then).

Nevertheless I feel like I would prefer my home destroyed and even myself crippled over the neighboring nuclear power plant blowing up.
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roenxi 1689 days ago
> Nevertheless I feel like I would prefer my home destroyed and even myself crippled over the neighboring nuclear power plant blowing up.

How much have you thought about it? Again, Fukushima, one of the worst nuclear disasters of all time. As far as I know nobody crippled.

I'd go for the plant meltdown myself, I like life, liberty and having use of my legs. It is reasonably likely that nobody would get hurt in a meltdown, the damage is largely economic.

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qwerty456127 1689 days ago
I just fear the radiation which might come out. I believe loosing a home and a leg is better than getting irradiated. It would probably ruin my nighttime sleep for the rest of my life if my body would start glowing in the dark, you know :-]

I am a proponent of nuclear power generation nevertheless.

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roenxi 1689 days ago
> I just fear the radiation which might come out. I believe loosing a home and a leg is better than getting irradiated.

Why? Even purely on that scenario you'r cutting off your leg to avoid a typically undetectable statistical risk.

We've got 50 years of records on the risk of plant meltdowns, a surprise earthquake hitting homes that aren't prepared is much, much worse than a nuclear plant meltdown. An earthquake will kill people. There will be deaths. Destruction. Suffering on a scale that is much worse than a nuclear meltdown.

You should earthquake proof your house if you think that is a possible risk.

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