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by osobo 1182 days ago
It's not just about life-years. It's about the risk of making significant stretches of land uninhabitable for a serious amount of time. 26 Chernobyl-like releases would have punched some serious holes in the map of the Western world. Furthermore, the 30-year argument sounds disingenuous ("LNT-Worshipping"? Really?) and the CO2 waste issue is mentioned where the nuclear waste issue is not.

Honestly, the whole thing feels like cheap propaganda.

2 comments

First, we'd need to have 26 Chernobyl-level incidents that you assume are a given.

Second, there's very little issue with nuclear waste. Way, way, way less than the media make it out to be

Imagine two or three 30km radius circles taken out of the UK and how much that would cost.