Nuclear Waste Is Bad for the Environment

The last thing that I hear all of the pushback about is the nuclear waste. That seems to be like the entry level, normally kind of pushback against nuclear power because nobody knows what they're talking about. Look at Chernobyl, like the poster child example, not that many people actually died during that fallout. Then like Chernobyl now is a is almost like a pristine wildlife refuge because there's no humans around it at all. And then Fukushima is another interesting one because you can get pretty close to that facility and the dose rates that you're exposed to are minuscule relative to what I could see on a regular basis working at a nuclear research facility.

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