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Anon questions our energy sector (slrpnk.net)
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[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 hours ago (4 children)

One time? Wikipedia says over 100 serious incidents and lists about 30 of them. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nuclear_and_radiation_accidents_and_incidents&wprov=rarw1

It's fine if you like nuclear, just don't try and claim it was one time. It poses serious risk and should be treated as such.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 47 minutes ago (1 children)

Look up deaths per kWHr of different energy sources and come back to me

[–] [email protected] 0 points 28 minutes ago

That's not my point and I'm already aware.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

The house burning probably happened more than one time too.

wiki/List_of_oil_spills

[–] [email protected] 0 points 28 minutes ago

The alternative is not necessarily oil.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 hours ago

Most of those didn't involve the magic rocks, and most didn't hurt anyone.

More people die creating the building materials for a powerplant (or a windmills, or a solar panel) than ever during operation. The numbers really don't matter.

I honestly don't care what we do, as long as we stop burning coal, oil and gas. The way I see it, every nuclear plant and windmill means we all die a little later.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Just put it somewhere noone lives like the Dakotas or places people who don't matter live, like west Virginia. All the coal miners getting cancer anyway, why not double tap?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 32 minutes ago

Low blow on West Virginia. Cool state and nice people. Hoping to move there someday.