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Or perfectly unsafe. Unlike the somewhat-corporately-one-sided debates of climate change and tobacco, there's powerful interest groups on both sides of the nucl

Or perfectly unsafe. Unlike the somewhat-corporately-one-sided debates of climate change and tobacco, there's powerful interest groups on both sides of the nuclear/gmo debates. Be mindful of what you read, coldtea.

coldtea 8y ago
>Be mindful of what you read, coldtea. Who said I'm not? I don't trust any corporation/government to build a safe reactor. They have failed repeatedly. The "this time is different", "modern designs have solved past problems" I don't buy, those claims have been made repeatedly too (and failed). I don't try the lowest bidder procurements, and I don't trust our understanding of risks (from terrorism to severe earthquakes to some idiot making a huge mistake). I also don't think we have any solution to the thousands of years byproduct of nuclear waste. Especially since we've had several scandals of big companies belonging to various mafias just being paid to dispose it and dumping it to the sea. Or routinely passed through cities, despite protocol. As for the claims of various "green power" schemes, I take those with large grains of salt too. Same for oil and coal (which at least has no big breakpoint like nuclear has, just a constant shitty pollution factor).
- scrollaway 8y ago
  > I don't trust any corporation/government to build a safe reactor. They have failed repeatedly. Maybe in the US. As a frenchman, I beg to disagree :)
  - coldtea 8y ago
    Dunno, doesn't seem something I'd trust not to fuck a large region outside of it in due time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_power_accidents_by_country#France https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_power_accident...
    - scrollaway 8y ago
      The absurdly low amount of both accidents and total fatalities in that entire page is honestly astounding. The reason it's chilling is that there's no comparative page for coal, or even non-nuclear sustainable power sources in general.

coldtea 8y ago

>Be mindful of what you read, coldtea. Who said I'm not? I don't trust any corporation/government to build a safe reactor. They have failed repeatedly. The "this time is different", "modern designs have solved past problems" I don't buy, those claims have been made repeatedly too (and failed). I don't try the lowest bidder procurements, and I don't trust our understanding of risks (from terrorism to severe earthquakes to some idiot making a huge mistake). I also don't think we have any solution to the thousands of years byproduct of nuclear waste. Especially since we've had several scandals of big companies belonging to various mafias just being paid to dispose it and dumping it to the sea. Or routinely passed through cities, despite protocol. As for the claims of various "green power" schemes, I take those with large grains of salt too. Same for oil and coal (which at least has no big breakpoint like nuclear has, just a constant shitty pollution factor).

scrollaway 8y ago
> I don't trust any corporation/government to build a safe reactor. They have failed repeatedly. Maybe in the US. As a frenchman, I beg to disagree :)
- coldtea 8y ago
  Dunno, doesn't seem something I'd trust not to fuck a large region outside of it in due time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_power_accidents_by_country#France https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_power_accident...
  - scrollaway 8y ago
    The absurdly low amount of both accidents and total fatalities in that entire page is honestly astounding. The reason it's chilling is that there's no comparative page for coal, or even non-nuclear sustainable power sources in general.