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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Nuclear disasters are messy, but affect less people than coal plants operating normally.

Not just that, but the disasters we do have with nuclear plants are with old ones. Fukushima was built in 1971, 40 years before the 2011 incident. The meltdown it experienced wouldn't just be more difficult in modern reactors. It would be impossible by design. We should be building new nuclear partially to retire old dangerous plants.