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Humans are being completely irrational. Can we create a safe nuclear power plant? Yes, but that doesn't mean we will and it doesn't mean there will be no issues
by hanniabu 7y ago
Humans are being completely irrational. Can we create a safe nuclear power plant? Yes, but that doesn't mean we will and it doesn't mean there will be no issues in operation. Not to mention the lobbying for changing rules of what the design life is to keep running the plant after the engineered lifespan has expired or lobbying to continue operation with larger concrete cracks than the engineers recommend. Both these things happen today. I think something like 80% of the plants in the US expired their engineered design life 10-15 years ago and many also have larger cracks than they should be operating with. This is because humans will always be greedy and put their profits first.
Then there's also situations where engineers just make stupid design decisions like in the case of Chernobyl. Or when there's something that engineers just haven't thought of like a failsafe plan for an earth quake as we've seen in Fukushima.