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Yes.

Unfortunately, despite the fact that even current nuclear causes less deaths per GWh than anything else including solar, it’s also the only power source currently offering humanity a self-made extinction apocalypse.

(Also the heat mirror was debunked twice by Mythbusters, as referenced in your own link).



True, but that's only because it's a really good power source. For instance, it's also what allows us to have working devices outside our solar system, and for similar reasons.

Any really good power source will have this problem, as will a great many other technologies, should we have them.


Indeed. I would rather we had mass interplanetary/lunar colonisation before making interstellar propulsion, for that very reason.




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