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Do they look like Fukushima or Chernobyl?

To redirect back to my original point -- this is an empirical argument.

Russian Roulette is not safe because nobody got shot in the first two rounds. The turkey is not safe because he was well treated through October.

Containment failures of nuclear reactors have a very large upper bound of damage.

> I mean, we have deliberately initiated containment failures for military purposes, so we know what they can look like.

This is an empirical argument.

Is the upper bound of damage higher for nuclear reactors or fossil fuels?

Man, you've got more patience than I do for someone dancing around the question. Especially when the dancer thinks that the worst case for a modern nuclear plant is Hiroshima circa 1945, but won't actually come right out and say it (for reasons I suspect are obvious).

They will post a source for the millions dead figure soon, I'm sure of it.

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