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The problem is that people take the accidents as reasons to retreat into pre-scientific beliefs in gods and goblins. One step forward, two steps back is still a
by niels_olson 10y ago
The problem is that people take the accidents as reasons to retreat into pre-scientific beliefs in gods and goblins. One step forward, two steps back is still a step back.
- inimino 10y agoGods and goblins? Are you being metaphorical? When things that were assured to be perfectly safe blow up, people tend to distrust the people who said they were safe. I think the pro-nuclear side faces extraordinary skepticism at this point, and not unreasonably so. The problem with nuclear is that we don't have the perspective yet to know the risks. Maybe in a couple hundred years we will know the actual costs of the installed nuclear capacity we have today, but all we have now are projections, and we know how easy it is for humans to be overoptimistic.