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by YetAnotherNick 40 days ago
I tracked down the source once and almost all of the fossil fuel deaths boiled down to deaths due to particulate matter in developing countries. It is highly preventible and only occurs because of no oversight or corruption. If we scale nuclear and have profit maximisation as objective and have no standards in factory, it will have significantly worse fate.
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Didn't know Germany is a developing country https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10640-025-01002-z
Germany gets pollution from all around due to bad coal, just like they got deaths due to Chernobyl.