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> Costs The politicians are not "drafting rules to require more safety" just for fun. Not regulating nuclear energy makes it cheaper but seems rather unsafe. (
by johmue 10y ago
> Costs
The politicians are not "drafting rules to require more safety" just for fun. Not regulating nuclear energy makes it cheaper but seems rather unsafe.
(because humans, you know)
- antris 10y agoI agree that their intentions are good, but you have to draw a line somewhere between cost and safety. Nothing we do is completely risk-free. You can get choked eating food, you can get into a car accident, yet food and transportation industries haven't been regulated to death. Why should nuclear be singled out, when it's already the safest form of energy of all time?
- ageofwant 10y agoFine, now please apply the same logic to coal plants that kill 7000000 people/year.
- sqeaky 10y ago7 million per year. This seems outright false despite being as pro nuclear as I am. Can you back this up?
- antris 10y agoI think the number is actually the total for global deaths in air pollution: http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2014/air-pollution/en/ http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2014/air-pollut... Coal is not the only contributor, but still a major one: http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1632163/670000-deaths-year-cost-chinas-reliance-coal http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1632163/670000-deaths... 670,000 reported deaths because of coal annually in China
- ekun 10y agoIt's not that the regulations are ill-intentioned but currently they are preventing safer technologies from being implemented because it costs billions of dollars to get technologies licensed properly.