why we don’t rely on nuclear power plants more, especially these days

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why we don’t rely on nuclear power plants more, especially these days

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It’s hard to get approval to build one, people are against it because of the few bad accidents you hear about.

More people have died at coal mines, building dams, drilling for oil etc but it doesn’t make the news like Fukushima or Chernobyl.

Politicians do what the constituents want, so the make policy that makes it tough.

Nuclear power has the lowest overall impact on the environment and is comparably mu h safer than anything else.