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		haadej on July 7, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Nuclear turn green as EU parliament approves new t... Modern rockets, such as the Falcon 9, have an extremely low failure rate. Falcon 9 itself has had over 160 launches, with only 1 complete failure.

martin_a on July 7, 2022 [–]

Would you bet that there's not a second failure which distributes nuclear waste in our atmosphere?

willcipriano on July 7, 2022 | [–]

You mean like a coal plant operating under normal conditions?

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