Proximity to local danger is diffused by the option of simply leaving

Evidence

I guess I don’t really feel that nuclear power plants are all that horribly dangerous. I know there’s a potential for danger, but I’m not [then she starts talking extremely rapidly]… I guess they don’t a¡ect me directly and they don’t melt down on a daily basis and the, I mean, they do emit radioactivity and all that stu¡, but there’s other ways to get radioactivity… So, I guess it doesn’t really bother me… If there was a meltdown … then, if nothing else, I just would not live here anymore. I wouldn’t want to try to solve the problem for other people. — Nina Eliasoph, “Close to home”, 72

Categorization

• corroborated: 5 independent passages support this claim — Nina Eliasoph, “Close to home”: The work of avoiding…, 72

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