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yawaraminyesterday at 10:57 PM2 repliesview on HN

But they're not entitled to their own facts.


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frollogastontoday at 3:53 AM

There's not much trust in anyone who says nuclear is completely safe, "we fixed it now," etc. That shouldn't be the motto. But fossil fuel is already killing more people, coal puts more radioactive uranium dust into the air even, and that's before getting into climate change.

I think people who are anti-nuclear and environmentalist are wrong, but it's not an insane opinion to have. There's no fact you can point to that says nuclear is safer than renewables. I just don't see how the world is realistically going to switch to renewables. We've already seen oil companies use those as distractions from nuclear.

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TheOtherHobbesyesterday at 11:58 PM

The facts are that all large nuclear plants require a stable water supply, and climate change directly threatens that.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211467X2...

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