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it's the most expensive to build/operate and much safer than typically perceived. Accidents are spectacular and rare.

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[-] lntl@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It's not clear to me that these deaths from evacuation are from the explosion at the plant and resulting leak or the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in Japan (mag 9.0) and resulting tsunami. it's really hard to pin a definitive reason onto these fatalities.

[-] thonofpy@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Fair point. Nuclear plants are fairly safe and historically have a low death toll, I agree. Leaves the radioactive waste to deal with.

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