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344 | Inside the Nuclear Energy Renaissance with Bret Kugelmass

The Realignment

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Nuclear Safety in the 70s?

"There is no potential hazard from the meltdown of a water-based nuclear power plant, zero potential hazard. I am not saying that it is safe or not safe," he says. "I'm saying it was never dangerous to begin with, even if you remove every single safety system." He adds: "What happened to Fukushima then? There was a tsunami that killed 20,000 people and three nuclear reactors that had total meltdowns and couldn't manage to hurt a fly"

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