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> A technician slips up and there is radiation exposure, there is a NON-zero chance of the whole city being affected.

Long distance electric transmission is a fairly solved problem. We can put the nuclear plant downwind in BFE. It's even easier than pumping around liquid energy because the electrons move themselves.

You don't hear people up in arms over the risk of catastrophe every time an oil tanker drives by. Why is nuclear any more special than an oil tanker off your coast?




Because I can avoid problems with spilt oil by not getting into the sea near my coast.

Not so much with a nearby nuclear disaster.




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