Tocan isle wrote: ok but thats a trivial detail which ignores the greater point i was trying to make...anyway I had a discussion with my dad about how we need to use nuclear energy as a transition, and it went in one ear and out the other
my dad: "would you want to live next to a nuclear power plant?" me: "i mean no??? but would you rather live next to a fossil fuel plant?" him: "it's a different risk." me: "yeah, and it's a risk that's significantly lower than that of living next to a fossil fuel plant." him: "you can't compare them. it's a different risk" me: "they're actually very easy to compare. if you look at stats"
*sigh*
If you go to Philly near the bridge you will see a coal burning plant and there are these huge pillars of smoke coming out, in total unrelation that area has high lung cancer.
what a coincidence