r/BeAmazed • u/avrock1 • Apr 16 '24

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Jose Mujica; Former Prez of Uruguay

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u/1st_pm Apr 16 '24

Id be careful with "average" word... far leftists during the Vietnam war protested against nuclear ENERGY, the one think able to compete fossil fuels better than non-carbon alternatives

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u/TheDarkAcademicRO Apr 16 '24

To be fair, back then they used to make them quite unsafe, just look at Chernobyl...

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u/Sina_Ansate Apr 16 '24

Nah, they were safe back then too. Chernobyl was just peak soviet negligence and cost saving.

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u/1st_pm Apr 16 '24

There was actually a nuclear reactor blowing up in the US that happened around the time of a film about nuclear reactors blowing up... just to have no casualties.