I certainly would rather live next to a nuke plant than a coal plant or field of wind turbines.
Things happen; I'm not rattled in the least. Learn from it and apply it. That's really what should be done.
Things happen; I'm not rattled in the least. Learn from it and apply it. That's really what should be done.
Years ago, I lived in a little housing plan that had just two roads in and out and both put you right up against a railroad yard. I never thought much about it until one morning on the way to work I glanced over at the tracks and saw a dozen or so tanker cars with placards saying they were carrying chlorine.
This article claims that coal fired plants kill a 100,000 people a year -- I doubt that, but even if true, it is only after many decades of constant exposure to emissions. And other people get their hair on fire about small amounts of radiation that may or may not cause a cancer decades in the future.
Now if something crashed into those chlorine tankers sitting on that rail yard that morning, I would have died right then and there, and depending on what direction the wind was blowing that day, no one in that little housing plan could have escaped either.
Now that is what I call risk. Not 'statistical' possibilities like emissions from a coal plant, or radiation exposure.