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The real long tail risks from nuclear are the long term ones, which aren't factored in because we don't know what nuclear storage sites will be like in 100 or 1000 years. That's what many rational people object to about nuclear power — it involves a massive discounting of future risk, and we know people are really bad at over-discounting future risk in general.


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