While 100% true for nuclear, the current state of burning fossil fuels is much MUCH worse.
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RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
TBF a nuclear incident is not like burning just one house down. It’s burning down the whole city and making it unusable for a decade or ten.
jaschen@lemm.ee 10 hours ago
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Yes. Over the long term it will render the planet uninhabitable, or at least close enough to it.
jaschen@lemm.ee 5 hours ago
Some experts would argue it’s already starting to be uninhabitable.
OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 12 hours ago
I think a town burning down would be fatal for most the inhabitants 3000 BC
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Yes, maybe… but the point being they could, and often did, rebuild right where they’d been before. Radiation prevents that.
Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 5 hours ago
Why not build it in a remote location then?
Dams can also produce a lot of hydroelectric power, and a catastrophic failure could also destroy an entire town or more. We just don’t build dams upstream of a large town.