• HughJanus@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Honest question: why shouldn’t we be afraid?

    but fear that we’d do another Chernobyl has scared us away from it.

    Chernobyl turned an entire city into a radioactive wasteland for the next 10k years. Same goes for 3-mile island and Fukushima. The last of which was just over 10 years ago.

    Are we so arrogant to think that that could never happen again? What’s changed?

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      1 year ago

      Chernobyl is a city inhabited today. In fact, the reactors right next to the ones that burnt were still producing energy a few years ago.

      Hopefully your ignorance won’t last 10k years and you’ll learn that nuclear is far less dangerous than your car for example.

      • HughJanus@lemmy.ml
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        1 year ago

        Thank you for the intelligent reply. I just can’t imagine why people are afraid anymore 🖕

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        1 year ago

        Pripyat is not inhabited in a normal way. There are no children or families and there won’t be. Simply because children eat dirt and dirt is radioactive. Saying it is inhabited like you did implies there is normal life happening. It never will be again.