Comment 60975

By Ricky (anonymous) | Posted March 15, 2011 at 10:43:32 in reply to Comment 60974

So what's the answer? Abandon the state and migrate en masse to Tahoe?

Some places are more risky than others but there are risks everywhere. It's just not possible to eliminate it - staying at home hiding under your coffee table gives you the real risk of muscle and bone degeneration, heart disease, diabetes, cancer.

A nuclear power plant is risky. A coal-fired power plant is even more risky, talk about radiation, pollution and lung/heart disease. Even solar power kills more people per kilowatt hour of production than nuclear power, after all you need to climb on the roof to install it and that's risky.

I'm not trying to be sarcastic, I don't have the answers either, but they're really hairy questions. It's easy to get hysterical about nuclear power because a meltdown is so scary but it's actually one of the safer ways of producting electricity. I'll give you this one though, it's probably not such a good idea to build nukes on fault-lines.

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