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Records Show 56 Safety Violations at U.S. Nuclear Power Plants in Past 4 Years
- Turing_Machine 16y ago'14 "near misses" at nuclear plants in 2010'. You'd think that with that many "near misses" per year, the U.S. nuclear power industry couldn't possibly have operated for over 50 years without a single death among the general public, and yet it has (plant workers and miners have died, but not nearly as many per kWh generated as, say, coal). Maybe these "near misses" aren't quite as serious as they're implying?
- mpyne 16y agoThe headline is misleading IMO: Simply tallying up numbers of problems noted by a regulatory agency is useless from the perspective of judging safety. Remember when Microsoft tried to make Firefox look like a buggy piece of shit by simply noting how many open bugs they had in their Bugzilla? The real problem from the article that is worrying (if true) is that the NRC is not always able to properly enforce compliance with their policies even when issues become known.