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Charles C. Mann - Americas Before Columbus & Scientific Wizardry
Dwarkesh Podcast
Nuclear Power
Nuclear power has a thing for its main type of pollution, called the linear no threshold model. And what it says is that you have to reduce the radiation to the maximum exten practicable. If if your nuclear power is wage cheaper than coal power, which it is, that means you have more profit so that you can spend more money reducing it. So there you have a strange case of regulatory capture in which you have a completely inconsistent set of safety standards across different parts of the same, same industry.
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