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The article says China's deployment plans are being derailed by cost and popular attitudes towards nuclear. The cost of new tech in turn is mostly driven by the
by spenrose 7y ago
The article says China's deployment plans are being derailed by cost and popular attitudes towards nuclear. The cost of new tech in turn is mostly driven by the chicken-and-egg problem of deployment. So you have to solve deployment, which means you have to change attitudes.
- bassman9000 7y agoAnd to start doing so, you develop passively-safe technologies (walk away), where, by design, Chernobils can't happen.
- The_rationalist 7y agoChernobyl couldn't happen on today plants anyway. It was a succession of ridiculous human errors, where e.g while stress testing the reactor, they disabled the automatic recovery system. Power plants are now using computers and they wouldn't allow such human stupidity.
- bassman9000 7y agoThus the passive/walk away. Three Mile Island was a much better Western design, and still shit happened, although with a fraction of the consequences. Fukishima, same. I don't want a computer to be the failsafe. Computers fail. I want safe systems by design. Like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAI1zVH5ir8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAI1zVH5ir8
- Gibbon1 7y agoAt TMI the core suffered a partial meltdown. Downriver is Chesapeake Bay. Lucky doesn't begin to cover what happened at TMI.
- chess_buster 7y agoČerenkov-Blue Screen of Death then.