• superniceperson@sh.itjust.works
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    6 days ago

    The US releases more radiation entirely uncontrolled over every five year period than the Chernobyl event.

    Chernobyl is over exaggerated. Coal power has done more damage, and continues to do more damage than the totality of all nuclear incidents, and it does so every 7 years.

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      6 days ago

      Yes, but you are missing the point.

      USSR was forced to take the Chernobyl seriously, built the sarcophagus, and lost a lot of money and reputation.

      The US lost the goodwill by… having voted in the biggest disaster so far. Not because of any crysis manifested as of yet, but they will come very soon.

      The death and destruction you speak of doesn’t move almost anybody.

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        6 days ago

        Ask the 20-50x more cancer patients downwind (up to 50 miles) from any coal mine or plant what they think of a few thousand dead.

        More people have died from coal related radiation related cancers than lived in the entirety of pripyat.

        Nuclear, by the numbers is the safest power source next to solar. The rmb reactors of Chernobyl, per mWh, are safer than any implementation of coal that has ever existed or will ever exist.