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[–] dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 61 points 9 months ago (14 children)

I think 3 mile Island and Chernobyl and Fukushima and Sosnovy Bor and Ibaraki and Forsmark were probably more influential in terrifying the general public about nuclear power.

[–] ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 50 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (10 children)

Yeah it's also people using those incidents for fear mongering. Especially when coal and oil have killed way more people than every nuclear incident combined, including nuclear weapons.

[–] kandoh@reddthat.com 21 points 9 months ago (6 children)

The psychological impact of a meltdown versus slow poisoning is important. Similar to how fire bombings were more deadly and destructive than the nuclear bombs were, but the nukes have a bigger impact on us mentally

[–] aniki@lemm.ee 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yeah we firebomed Tokyo to cinders. Hardly any of the original buildings remain and the ones that did are all landmarks.

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