Chernobyl

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But Nuclear power is safe and nothing bad would ever happen.

Before someone inevitability comes along, gnashing their teeth, telling me how the Russians (everything the Soviets did was the Russians fault, remember that) disregarded protocol, telling me how accidents literally never happen (except that one in Japan and that other one in three mile island).

I would simply point out that one of these accidents is catastrophic. You know what happens when a windmill or solar panel explodes? A fire. You know a fire does? It gets extinguished.

Nuclear power is meme propagated but pseudo scientific shutins.

It's been a while since I've seen someone disparage Nuclear power, I didn't expect it to be you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_accidents

http://coalitionoffreedom.com/how-ma...lear-accidents

At worst 5400 people have died due to nuclear accident over 60+ years, 5000 of those are estimates based on surrounding exposure and largely uncomfirmed, that is out of 182,156 dead from power production related accidents overall since 1907. To put it in perspective: The 1957 Great Smog of London killed 12,000.

Also there was that time when a hydroelectric dam killed 171,000 people. Not sure why it is omitted from the worldwide death toll.

Nuclear power is a beast when things go wrong, but it is less of a beast than previous methods of power production with the added benefit that it doesn't mess things up when it's running perfectly. It is also the only power source with the efficiency and capacity to replace the burden oil and coal bears(save hydro-electric which cant be used everywhere and the consequences of a large scale failure can be biblical, far beyond that of all nuclear accidents thus far).