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pinkmuffinereyesterday at 11:38 PM2 repliesview on HN

> Nuclear is brutally overregulated, far, far beyond what's necessary to ensure safety, and that's where most costs come from.

Is this really true? We seem to have a pretty large disaster perhaps every 15-20 years (3 mile island, Chernobyl, Fukushima), which makes me think that it is either correctly- or under- regulated. Of course coal and oil are worse, but that’s not exactly a high bar…


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hdgvhicvtoday at 12:40 AM

Fukushima killled a couple of people? More died that day from car crashes.

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azan_yesterday at 11:50 PM

> Of course coal and oil are worse, but that’s not exactly a high bar…

It is what we want to replace with nuclear power, so that's exactly the bar we should jump over. So let's say it: all of these disasters did not cause even 1/1000 as many deaths as coal power plants.

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