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516. Nuclear Power Isn’t Perfect. Is It Good Enough?

Freakonomics Radio

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Mason's the Disaster

The disaster makes for a compelling and very frightening tv series. In the early morning hours of april 20, sixth, 19 86, at the ternoble nuclear power plant, they were running a safety test. They violated a series of safety rules that we would have in the west, that they didn't have. And even after it exploded, they refused to believe that it exploded. There is a mass of exclusion zone around trenoble that exists to this day because the area is still considered rather dangerous.

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