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Also the public's reaction is logical since information has been kept from the public for decades to hinder proper regulation. I think the successful class action lawsuit speaks for itself.
Actually one of the newest trend in architecture are large scale buildings made from (fire-proof!) wood
> Chernobyl was looked at by an international panel of scientist and engineers and early death related to it are below 1500. And many of those people live to pretty old age still.
Yeah and 600,000 people worked as liquidators.
I think a lot of those arguments (in fact on both sides) are overly nitpicky and based on niche facts making reasonable discussions next to impossible.
Nuclear seems this simplistic choice where the risk is shifted to somewhere where nobody can see it. Nobody knows about missing Core catchers, failure modes or insurance.
That said, new Nuclear plants are actually more expensive (LCOE) than other Energy forms with the exception of on-demand Gas
> Once again 'paid the (nuclear) price', is 1 death. One.
Claiming a really low number of fatalities has almost become a meme for every nuclear catastrophe. I remember reading articles of people claiming really few fatalities related to Chernobyl. But if you've watched the Netflix series, you can easily see that this cannot be further from the truth
By the way, in the same article it's also written that 'Predicted future cancer deaths due to accumulated radiation exposures in the population living near Fukushima have ranged[14] in the academic literature from none[15] to hundreds.[12]' ... 'For long-term displacement, many people (mostly sick and elderly) died at an increased rate ... As of 27 February 2017, the Fukushima prefecture government counted 2,129 "disaster-related deaths" in the prefecture.[21][19][22][23] This value exceeds the number that have died in Fukushima prefecture directly from the earthquake and tsunami.[24]'
After all the modifications mentioned are probably quite use-case specific. Not sure how much this can be generalized
The Inertia based fusion works by providing the heat/energy with lasers, so the fuel would have to be replaced continuously.
Yeah those are impressive but basically toys. Although at the moment it's clearly still a research prototype. For some things it works really well and beats Google by saving dozens of clicks and repeated searches, for others it's just plain wrong.
And not only that, even people who made fortunes in the financial markets.
> and so the obvious temptations were tempting...
But that is what happened. It's bad for people who've put in money they couldn't afford to lose