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Anyone trusts this guy wiht any kind of technology where a small bug can mean the death of millions ? Am I the only one who is missing something ?

• pjscott 16y ago
  This isn't a one-man project, and nuclear engineers are not idiots. The worst-case scenario here is that the sodium coolant gets out somehow and reacts with water, causing a chemical explosion and breaching containment. Sodium-cooled reactors are not a new technology, and there are well-developed methods of making such disaster scenarios vanishingly unlikely, as well as ensuring that the side-effects if they do happen would be minimal. So yes, you are missing something.
  • thornad 16y ago
    Microsoft was not a one man company either. And the only thing that could go wrong was...errrrr...StuxNet ?
    • pjscott 16y ago
      Software people do not have anything like the track record of safety that modern nuclear engineers do. The two are not directly comparable.