• RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    TBF a nuclear incident is not like burning just one house down. It’s burning down the whole city and making it unusable for a decade or ten.

    • Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca
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      3 days ago

      Why not build it in a remote location then?

      Dams can also produce a lot of hydroelectric power, and a catastrophic failure could also destroy an entire town or more. We just don’t build dams upstream of a large town.

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      3 days ago

      While 100% true for nuclear, the current state of burning fossil fuels is much MUCH worse.

      • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
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        3 days ago

        Yes, maybe… but the point being they could, and often did, rebuild right where they’d been before. Radiation prevents that.