[mrits]

At least there exists a reason to prefer nuclear power plants from being farther away from you.

What the US does with oil makes even less sense.

What the US does with the transportation of oil makes even lesser sense. If climate crisis is existential it seems like it would be worth having a few oil spills along a pipeline to save some carbon.

[Detrytus]

> At least there exists a reason to prefer nuclear power plants from being farther away from you.

Not at the distances this short. If anything happens to any of the nuclear plants in France the pollution will reach Germany within 24 hours.

I've actually seen this used as an argument FOR building nuclear power plants in Poland: we already have like 10 such plants within 200 miles from our borders, so we already have all of the risks, but none of the benefits.

[mrits]

I think you are confusing the ideas of "anything happen" with "if the worst case scenario happens". There are plenty of examples that disprove your theory.

And even in the worst case scenario the farther you are away the better.