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/remindme in 80 years

If I have to choose between an additional 3 Fukushima and the loss of thousands of costal cities due to sea level rise, I know what I'm choosing.

This study predict than sea level could rise by 2m by 2100 displacing up to 187 million people. Fukushima displaced about 160 thousands.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6561295/

Pick your poison, wisely.

It’s probably easier to deal with sea level rise since it’s slow motion. If there’s a Fukushima every year.. wow.

I assumed 3 events in the next 80 years.

There's been 25 years between Chernobyl and Fukushima, and assuming we build new reactor, there is no reason to imagine it would happen more frequently. Why do you think there could be a catastrophe per year ?

The world uses 18 TW of primary energy, which is about 6,000 1GW(e) reactors. This is more than an order of magnitude increase over current nuclear power reactors.

Also, many of those reactors are going to have to be breeders. Accidents in fast breeders are potentially even worse than Chernobyl.

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