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Originally Posted by Linkster
I totally agree - safest cleanest type of fuel out there - I worked in that industry for my career after the military and know first hand how clean it is compared to the rest
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Yup, its unfair how bad press nuclear energy has had in the past. I guess most of that is because of chernobyl, where 56 people died directly and estimated total of 4000 in all the following years to this date:
http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/chernobyl/inf07.htm
Compare this with the 50,000 to 120,000 who die every year in USA alone from pollution from burning fossil fuel:
http://www.cleanerandgreener.org/pro.../pollution.htm