To be fair, though, the top comment said “nothing wrong” and the guy just followed up with the wrong
I still think we have access to this energy source and are basically just ignoring it so oil and coal and continue to soak up tax payer funded subsidies and ruin our planet.
Yeah and only 31 died at Chernobyl, arguably the worst and farthest reaching disaster in modern times. Initial death tolls when the accidents happen aren’t what you need to worry about.
All these years on the estimates are up to 60000 and people are still being effected by the one incident across all countries.
Almost anything has the potential to negatively affect tens of thousands of people when it’s managed as recklessly and negligently as Chernobyl.
Chernobyl was less a reactor and more a bomb with a very long fuse. Saying we shouldn’t build nuclear reactors today is like saying you shouldn’t take a modern cruise because 14th century sailing ships sank all the time.
37 years since that single nuclear accident that devastated the site and left around 2600 Square kilometres around it still unsafe to be in nearly 4 decades later.
That list records 8 fatalities related to nuclear power in the US. All time.
Coal is responsible for more than 40. Per year. Just in my city.
To be fair, though, the top comment said “nothing wrong” and the guy just followed up with the wrong
I still think we have access to this energy source and are basically just ignoring it so oil and coal and continue to soak up tax payer funded subsidies and ruin our planet.
You are also forgetting the years of life lost due to air pollution.
Yeah and only 31 died at Chernobyl, arguably the worst and farthest reaching disaster in modern times. Initial death tolls when the accidents happen aren’t what you need to worry about.
All these years on the estimates are up to 60000 and people are still being effected by the one incident across all countries.
Almost anything has the potential to negatively affect tens of thousands of people when it’s managed as recklessly and negligently as Chernobyl.
Chernobyl was less a reactor and more a bomb with a very long fuse. Saying we shouldn’t build nuclear reactors today is like saying you shouldn’t take a modern cruise because 14th century sailing ships sank all the time.
OK what about a natural disaster that caused Fukushima?
How many years has it been since chernobyl?
Not the 320 years it will take for the exclusion zone to be habitable again.
37 years since that single nuclear accident that devastated the site and left around 2600 Square kilometres around it still unsafe to be in nearly 4 decades later.