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It's just like every other example of regulatory capture, really - the people who're qualified to assess the safety of nuclear power plants are those who have t
by makomk 6y ago
It's just like every other example of regulatory capture, really - the people who're qualified to assess the safety of nuclear power plants are those who have training in reactor physics and engineering, which is of course the same pool of people that plant operators draw from when building and operating their plants, so you end up with a revolving door effect where the nominally independent regulator is incredibly close to the industry it's regulating and has few ties with other stakeholders like, say, everyone living in the surrounding region.
- mratsim 6y agoIt's much better to have experts assessing other experts than laymen (say politics or judges) assessing experts (like what happens with privacy/piracy laws).
- therealdrag0 6y agoIs there an alternative?
- kergonath 6y agoASN is an independent authority. Do you have any proof otherwise? I am yet to see any of these engineers becoming millionaires. Besides, they don’t make decisions, as the Fessenheim example demonstrates. The people making decisions are politicians who have no clue and just follow gut feeling and electoral arithmetic. Not many of them come from engineering schools, much less universities.