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by Hammershaft
1 hour ago
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https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/death-rates-from-energy-p... People die from the operation & externalities of every energy source, it's just that Nuclear power has orders of magnitude fewer deaths per kilowatt-hour than the dirtier energy sources these regulations have pushed energy production towards. I'm sure some lives would be lost if Nuclear Power faced the same regulatory costs that other energy sources do, rather than the egregious and absurd costs they face today. But many many more lives would be saved by deregulating nuclear energy and making it more cost competitive with coal and natural gas. Many children wouldn't contract asthma & the other respiratory illnesses they do today if nuclear energy hadn't been killed via overregulation and replaced by coal and natural gas. |
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