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Default Nuclear energy production costs

On Saturday, 4 February 2017 17:16:14 UTC, Nightjar wrote:
On 04-Feb-17 12:38 PM, mechanic wrote:
On Sat, 4 Feb 2017 10:21:44 +0000, newshound wrote:

The great ease of detection of small amounts of radioactivity is
one of the reasons you should have more confidence in this
industry than almost any other: you can't hide a leak.


Unfortunately that doesn't help you to fix it, eg Fukushima


The leak caused no deaths and no major exposures to radiation.
761 people died as a direct result of the evacuation.


If they hadn't been evacuated, they'd be dead.