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[–] [S] 10 points 1 day ago (14 children)

If anti-nuclear people knew anything about nuclear power, they wouldn't be anti-nuclear. The Chernobyl powerplant was an RMBK reactor, completely different in structure than other nuclear powerplants. The fossil fuel industry loves misguided opposition against nuclear energy. Read about the RMBK. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RBMK

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  • [–] 2 points 11 hours ago

    You support nuclear for psychological reasons, not for technological reasons. It gives you a sense of superiority over your fellow human beings. The real reason nuclear is a dead technology is that it's simply not cost competitive with renewables and batteries, but you're here pretending that it's a bunch of scared superstitious ignorant environmentalists that are dragging it down. THOSE common fools just don't know the science. THOSE morons just aren't rational actors like you are. THEY are just to lazy to read about nuclear plant designs.

    You're engaged in a comforting form of self-delusion. The actual barriers to nuclear have nothing to do with people just being irrationally afraid of fission. But you ignore this because it gives you a sense of intellectual superiority.

    You support nuclear for psychological rather than technological reasons. Fission is just your sports team.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 day ago (8 children)

    Ask them how many people died at Fukushima

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  • [–] 0 points 22 hours ago (6 children)

    That's not what that article says

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    The text of the article is what I looked at, where they're a lot less definite.

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  • [–] 0 points 21 hours ago (1 child)

    The 2202 deaths claim is from this article.

    If you don't trust that news site, directly in the article to the left of the info box:

    As of 27 February 2017, the Fukushima prefecture government counted 2,129 "disaster-related deaths" in the prefecture.

    That claim is supported by one government report, two scientific papers and one news site.

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  • [–] 2 points 21 hours ago

    And then you have to see what a "disaster-related death" is.

    Certainly you didn't have thousands of people dying at the site, which is what someone might understand if they had taken your numbers at face value.

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  • [–] -3 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    And the nuclear lobby likes people like you.

    Where would Germany get uranium from, by the way?

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