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Just up voted this to balance down votes. It's a shame to down vote something just because you dislike an opinion.
by ifdefdebug 11y ago
Just up voted this to balance down votes. It's a shame to down vote something just because you dislike an opinion.
- pdeuchler 11y agoOr, you know, it's being downvoted for blatant falsehoods like: "Today's nuclear power plants are inherently unsafe. Most that are in operation depend on active cooling systems to prevent a meltdown."
- kenesom1 11y ago80% of the world's nuclear fleet are in fact light water reactors - like Fukushima - which require continuous cooling and a constant source of power. Even the latest passive safety proposals like liquid fluoride thorium reactors don't conclusively solve the fundamental problem of overheating after a cooling system failure [1]. [1] http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/2010/6/not-so-fast-with-thorium http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/2010/6/not-so-fa...
- svedlin 11y agoOnly 15 plants in operation have gen-3 passive cooling features and these systems are hardly fail safe. http://www.ucsusa.org/sites/default/files/legacy/assets/documents/nuclear_power/NPWWch6.pdf http://www.ucsusa.org/sites/default/files/legacy/assets/docu...
- svedlin 11y agoDownvotes are often attached to inconvenient truths. The safety of nuclear power is based mainly on wishful thinking. It's the classic folly of chasing short-term cost savings and ignoring long-tail risks.