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this post was submitted on 05 Mar 2024
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While that's true, the counter arguments are Fukushima, Three Mile Island, and Chernobyl.
The risk with nuclear is that we trade one problem--climate change caused by CO2 emissions--for another significant problem down the road.
At the same time, climate change is here now, and we need to act or else there isn't going to be anything we need to worry about in a century.