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A Place of No Pity

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We assume nothing will go wrong, we were promised that nothing would go wrong. The promises are hollow, the evacuation plans are paper. How could we evacuate New York City in an emergency? We can't and we are ignoring that there aren't enough lifeboats on this nuclear Titanic. We trust that the Captains know what they're doing and so we trust that those pressured or bullied or worried about their jobs and retirement to make the correct choices for us about decisions which could affect the lives of millions.

Can we be so blithe as to believe that it can't happen here? A country where nuclear power plant workers are trained by their for profit employers? A country where government actively pursues breaking down workers rights to put in place autocratic management? A country with an aging fleet of first generation nuclear reactors in a place with no pity for its victims.

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