Every form of power generation has downsides. Every form. If there was one with no downsides, we'd all be using it.
Some have worse downsides than others. Something like nuclear has a lot of advantages, but people are prejudiced against it. It's far better than this blight on every landscape, and coal which kills hundreds of people each year.
Yup. Just how ... unbalanced ... the public perception of nuclear is can be shown by the 2011 tsunami in Japan.
Almost 20,000 dead from the tsunami, and what leads in the papers? Two guys copped a dose from the Fukushima Daiichi reactor incident. You'd be hard-pressed from the coverage to realise a tsunami happened at all, such was the glee with which the press reported on the nuclear incident.
Some have worse downsides than others. Something like nuclear has a lot of advantages, but people are prejudiced against it. It's far better than this blight on every landscape, and coal which kills hundreds of people each year.
Yup. Just how ... unbalanced ... the public perception of nuclear is can be shown by the 2011 tsunami in Japan.
Almost 20,000 dead from the tsunami, and what leads in the papers? Two guys copped a dose from the Fukushima Daiichi reactor incident. You'd be hard-pressed from the coverage to realise a tsunami happened at all, such was the glee with which the press reported on the nuclear incident.