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

Freakonomics Radio

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The Three Mile Island Accident and the China Sendrome - What's Your Fear?

The china syndrome was nonsense, and should have been described as such, but wasn't. Three mile island was a case of the press runama and no counterbalance. Tenoble is almost a road map to safe nuclear power because it lists all the things that are required for a nuclear reactor to explode. And we don't do any of them. We can't be held hostage by the spectre of misinterpretation.

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