Re: Safer than people think
"There is not a 1,000 square mile exclusion zone anywhere except due to nuclear"
Due to extremely cavalier 'safety' measures taken on a reactor that was already very unsafe by design, yes. The chances of anything like Chernobyl happening to a new-built recent design nuclear reactor, in any real scenario, as close to zero as makes no difference.*
And what, pray, is your obsession with this exclusion zone? Is it that no humans or other life can live there? (actually they can). Is it that humans have chosen not to take up residence there? (they equally can't reside anywhere in or around a windmill farm, solar farm, submerged by a hydroelectric lake etc). Is it that there are dangerous levels of radiation in it (there aren't, except for a much much smaller zone)?
It's just a number you're throwing around that is based on some bureaucrats decision that has no relevance to the debate over whether newly built nuclear reactors can/will be safe.
* yes, I am tempting fate, am I not?
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