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It's not nuclear vs fossil fuels that is the real debate though. It's nuclear vs renewables. And IMO renewables come out way ahead in this debate.



They have other drawbacks, pollution, storage, transportation and peak production aren't solved.

In the meantime just look at France vs Germany, nuclear is a net positive in every possible metrics I can come up with. How many people died directly/indirectly in the last 60 years because of german coal industry ? Way more than in all nuclear disasters world wide. And that's for a single country.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_France

fr https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/El...

de https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/El...




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