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Suppose you exhaustively incorporated all risk when engineering power plants, and you designed such that exhaustive risk was equal across all power plants. Tha
by kadonoishi 7y ago
Suppose you exhaustively incorporated all risk when engineering power plants, and you designed such that exhaustive risk was equal across all power plants.
That would mean risks from climate change were included in the engineering of coal plants, and the engineering of nuclear plants therefore needed to match the exhaustive risk of coal plants including climate change risk.
That would mean nuclear plants could be engineered to accept higher risk, to match the exhaustive risk of coal plants.
If a nuclear plant might render a region uninhabitable due to radiation, that would be matched against a coal plant rendering a region uninhabitable due to sea level rise, etc, all risks exhaustively incorporated.
How much cheaper would a nuclear plant be if it was engineered to an exhaustive risk-mitigation standard commensurate with the exhaustive risk of other industrial plants like coal-fired power plants, mines, chemical plants?