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[–] erusuoyera@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It's not the safest by any margin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_power_accident s_by_country

From that link...

Relatively few accidents have involved fatalities, with roughly 74 casualties being attributed to accidents and half of these were those involved in the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.[6]

Compare that to estimated 7 million killed every year by pollution from burning fossil fuels.

https://ourworldindata.org/data-review-air-pollution-deaths

[–] MattMastodon@mastodonapp.uk -2 points 1 year ago

@erusuoyera @cloud

#Nuclear is an expensive, uninsurable, unviable tech kept afloat by usually authoritarian government subsidies that produced waste that will be around for thousands of years.

Nuclear fission is a dead end technology.

Wind, Solar and Battery tech will be in place in a fraction of the time and for less cost.

[–] gnygnygny@lemm.ee -2 points 1 year ago

You really trust UNSCEAR ? 😆

[–] cloud@lazysoci.al -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How many people died in Somalia due to nuclear waste?

[–] erusuoyera@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

None confirmed from any of the reports I could find, but feel free to post credible evidence otherwise.

[–] cloud@lazysoci.al -1 points 1 year ago

None confirmed and yet the waste is there dumped in the wild, do the math