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Is nuclear energy a controllable risk?

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It has been thought so, and usually is safe, but events like Chernobyl and Fukushima show that occasionally something outside what is predicted can happen, and the consequences can be very unsettling for the nearby population. Our modern society needs energy though, and all forms of energy use carry some risk. Coal mining has always been dangerous, and oil extraction can also go very wrong sometimes, as in the Gulf last year.

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