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No, not really. It makes a lot of sense in all stable countries.

There is no such thing as a stable country on the time scale required for nuclear energy safety. That requires decades. Humanity cannot provide that.

Enerhodar is not the only example. World war two ended roughly 77 year ago. The US civil war was less than 160 years ago.

Enerhodar is the town in which the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant is located (only because the name of the town might not be as well known as the name of the power station).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enerhodar

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaporizhzhia_Nuclear_Power_Pla...

Maybe the problem is requiring insanely high levels of safety from the nuclear industry, way higher than realistic in the current world that can and does kill people in myriad non-nuclear ways.

For example, I am willing to bet that nuclear-related deaths in the Ukrainian war will be a minuscule percentage of the total loss of life caused by said war.

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