<story><title>Oliver Stone Releases Trailer for His Pro-Nuclear Energy Movie</title><url>https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/oliver-stone-nuclear-now-trailer-1235357522/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>10g1k</author><text>Countries with nuclear reactors: 32.&lt;p&gt;Countries which have had nuclear leaks or meltdowns: 15.&lt;p&gt;Number of nuclear leaks and meltdowns since 1952 (only those which resulted in loss of human life or &amp;gt;US$50K property damage): ~100.&lt;p&gt;About 60% of those have been in the USA, allegedly the most advanced country in the world.&lt;p&gt;Note that the USA requirements for nuclear reactor waste (yes, they produce toxic waste; they are not clean), last time I checked, required the canisters to be able to survive for 300 years.  The waste lasts longer than 300 years.&lt;p&gt;Two years ago the USA had a leak which spilled ~400,000 gallons of radioactive water into a major river system, and it was covered up for two years.&lt;p&gt;Finally: If you are not willing to have a nuclear reactor right beside your house, but are willing to have one beside someone else&amp;#x27;s house, you are a coward and are not really in favour of nuclear power.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>smithcoin</author><text>Deaths per terawatt-hour of energy production:&lt;p&gt;- Biomass 4.63&lt;p&gt;- Brown coal 32.72&lt;p&gt;- Coal 24.62&lt;p&gt;- Gas 2.82&lt;p&gt;- Hydropower 1.30&lt;p&gt;- Nuclear 0.03&lt;p&gt;- Oil 18.43&lt;p&gt;- Solar 0.02&lt;p&gt;- Wind 0.04&lt;p&gt;Source: Markandya &amp;amp; Wilkinson (2007); Sovacool et al. (2016); UNSCEAR (2008; &amp;amp; 2018)&lt;p&gt;Nuclear energy is one of the safest forms of energy we have.</text></comment>
<story><title>Oliver Stone Releases Trailer for His Pro-Nuclear Energy Movie</title><url>https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/oliver-stone-nuclear-now-trailer-1235357522/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>10g1k</author><text>Countries with nuclear reactors: 32.&lt;p&gt;Countries which have had nuclear leaks or meltdowns: 15.&lt;p&gt;Number of nuclear leaks and meltdowns since 1952 (only those which resulted in loss of human life or &amp;gt;US$50K property damage): ~100.&lt;p&gt;About 60% of those have been in the USA, allegedly the most advanced country in the world.&lt;p&gt;Note that the USA requirements for nuclear reactor waste (yes, they produce toxic waste; they are not clean), last time I checked, required the canisters to be able to survive for 300 years.  The waste lasts longer than 300 years.&lt;p&gt;Two years ago the USA had a leak which spilled ~400,000 gallons of radioactive water into a major river system, and it was covered up for two years.&lt;p&gt;Finally: If you are not willing to have a nuclear reactor right beside your house, but are willing to have one beside someone else&amp;#x27;s house, you are a coward and are not really in favour of nuclear power.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hermitcrab</author><text>Lots of people have been killed by dam failures. 240,000 people just from the failure of the Banqiao and Shimantan Dams in 1975, according to wikipedia:
&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Dam_failure&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Dam_failure&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;But I don&amp;#x27;t see anyone calling for an end to hydroelectric power. Fission power certainly has it&amp;#x27;s issues, but I think a lot of the opposition to it is more emotional than rational.</text></comment>