Nuclear power is dangerous, but not uniquely so among energy sources like coal, oil, and wind.

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  Americans have repeatedly overreacted drastically to real problems like DDT, Y2K, and nuclear power, swept up in fear after one vivid incident.

  Cowen’s claim that societies drastically overreact after one vivid incident uses nuclear power as a worked example, and that example only holds if nuclear is not in fact uniquely dangerous. MacKay supplies exactly that premise: dangerous, but not uniquely so among energy sources including coal, oil and wind.

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• American manufacturing output cannot meaningfully rise without first building large amounts of new electricity generation. MHMolson Hart6 Apr 2025energynuclear power
• Being strong, sovereign, hard-working and deeply competent, ideally also finishing ambitious infrastructure on budget and on time, makes every other problem melt away. TLTobias Lütke13 Sept 2026energynuclear power
• Europe cannot meet its energy needs from renewables alone and will need nuclear power, solar power from deserts elsewhere, or both. DMDavid MacKay3 Nov 2008energynuclear power
• Frontier AI should be licensed like other high-risk critical technologies such as medicine, aviation, and nuclear energy. YBYoshua Bengio23 Sept 2026energynuclear power
• Nuclear is empirically the safest form of energy -- safer even than solar, once you count the people who fall off roofs. ITIsaiah Taylor15 Aug 2026energynuclear power

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