The head of this year’s United Nations climate talks is calling for governments and businesses to tackle global warming by reducing greenhouse gas emissions in all regions and sectors if they want to stop the planet from passing a key temperature limit...
  • dismalnow@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Your premise is specious

    There were two major catastrophes that killed thousands, first in Chernobyl and then in Fukushima.

    1. Chernobyl was a flawed test which deliberately ignored documented safety protocols on an RBMK-1000 high-power channel-type reactor. There are still 10 chernobyl-style reactors operating across russia, but the test method is the primary cause of that disaster.
    2. Precisely ONE of those 15,000 people killed in Fukushima and neighboring areas were due to destruction of the reactors at Fukushima. Here’s more information.
    • Scrabbone@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Firstly you are just picking up on my first point and secondly no one would have been harmed in either disaster if a wind farm had been set up.