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A place for majestic STEMLORD peacocking, as well as memes about the realities of working in a lab.
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This is a science community. We use the Dawkins definition of meme.
Until something goes wrong and it is not safe and controlled anymore. You know, because of the whole exponential chain reaction thing.
So do you still believe in bloodletting to cure colds or the earth being 10,000 years old?
Nuclear plant accidents have happened tho. Remember Fukushima? It was 13 years ago, not that long. It didn't strait up explode like a nuclear bomb, and neither did Chernobyl, but still; contamination is a pretty big deal. You can argue that the risk isn't that bad or that fossil energy plants also have risks; but you can't just dismiss it as a superstition.
Modern reactor designs have no such problem, hence the reference to ancient science.