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Drawn from what Tyler Cowen said
nuclear power Fission as an energy source: what it costs, what it risks, and whether anything else can do the job.
On the topicWhere does the energy come from, and what is stopping it?under our view: What is scarce is not the technology but permission to build
Yet each time, we drastically overreacted, letting ourselves get swept up in a climate of fear after one emotionally vivid incident
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Nuclear power is dangerous, but not uniquely so among energy sources like coal, oil, and wind.
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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