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Can someone spoon feed me here? I read the article but didn't notice the part where the author explains why nuclear power is too safe.

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A great example is radiation testing for plant workers. Consider under current regulations the allowable radiation levels for entering/leaving the plant is so low that workers have sounded radioactivity alarms for eating bananas.

He means too costly, because of the level of safety we demand.

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And because it's too costly, we use other forms of energy production that are far less safe instead.

So making nuclear ultra-extra-special safe actually kills more people and is more costly than having slightly less safe nuclear would.

Or as I tend to put it: fear of nuclear is far deadlier than nuclear.

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