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> The things that actually kill people should get more attention, yes.

Meltdowns don't have the potential to kill? How did you know Fukushima was "no big deal" while it was happening? You didn't. No one knew. It also displaced 154,000 people. I guess that's not newsworthy though.

There was actually plenty of coverage of the earthquake and tsunami, which were immediate uncontrollable natural disasters. No one is lobbying for more earthquakes and tsunamis. Fukushima took months to get under control, and was a preventable man-made disaster.

>But even then, it took a lot to put it in a situation like this.

No it didn't. It took a predicted major earthquake to occur. The earthquake could likely have been weaker and still resulted in a similar outcome.

>things that cannot hurt them that they just say no instead of saying do it correctly without cutting corners

Why does something that "cannot hurt them" need so much engineering to prevent it from hurting them? This looks like doublespeak.

Nuclear power and storage could be done correctly, but it just hasn't been done correctly often enough, making people skeptical of it. It is also extremely costly to engineer these solutions.



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