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Originally Posted by Efthreeoh
Fukushima was the result of an incredibly stupid location on top of failure to maintain infrastructure to prevent sea inundation of the facility. You've now brought up two nuclear disasters to trigger emotions. Both of which were caused by stupidity.
I'll go on record that recent screwing around with bat shit viruses for gain-of-function research has been multiple times worse the worldwide disaster Fukushima and Chernobyl were. Humans...
Just saying.
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Don't forget about 3 Mile Island. Sure there are many redundancies and safeguards designed into nuclear power plants, BUT in the event of a catastrophe, the result could mass death and destruction. 3 Mile Island was likely minutes away from a full meltdown and possible large explosion which could have killed thousands (possibly hundreds thousands over time) and rendered a massive area surrounding the plant uninhabitable, think Chernobyl, but on an even larger scale. It took 15 years and nearly $1B to cleanup Three Mile Island.
We've had three major nuclear disasters in 43 years. That's not a great track record for a system that is supposed to be "safe", full of redundancies, and ran by high qualified personnel. There are countless small accidents and near misses at plants across the country and world, likely many not reported and/or the risk grossly underreported, as was the initial case with Three Mile Island, Fukushima, and Chernobyl.
Nuclear power is an amazing technological advancement, but a sane person should question the risk vs reward factor when it comes to larger facilities like nuclear power plants.