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Originally Posted by California98Civic
And to evaluate the safety of nuclear energy for humans without regard to the larger ecological context that sustains human life is completely unacceptably inadequate.
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I completely agree! But once again, I have to refer you to the great base of information which shows that the ecosystems of the Chernobyl exclusion zone (the so-called "Dead Zone", though it's anything but) are far, far healthier than they were before the accident.
You also need to consider that shutting down a nuclear plant will mean that much more coal will be strip-mined, natural gas extracted by fracking, wild rivers dammed to produce hydroelectric power, or even miles of desert ecosystem destroyed for solar plants.