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I'm not convinced nuclear is safe enough. Say new nuclear it is 2x safer than previous designs on average, and we spin up 4x more nuclear plants, well you can
by baix777 6y ago
I'm not convinced nuclear is safe enough. Say new nuclear it is 2x safer than previous designs on average, and we spin up 4x more nuclear plants, well you can see where this goes.
Plus, such a concentrated power source is going to invite a terrorist attack by something like drones, which can't be effectively defended against. An attack that looks like this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Abqaiq%E2%80%93Khurais_attack#:~:text=On%2014%20September%202019%2C%20drones,Khurais%20in%20eastern%20Saudi%20Arabia.&text=The%20attack%20caused%20large%20fires,put%20out%20several%20hours%20later https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Abqaiq%E2%80%93Khurais_at....
- fuoqi 6y agoI think that modern designs are at least an order of magnitude safer than reactors from early generations. Chernobyl's RBMK and Fukusima's BWR/1 were both designed in 60s. Note that containment of modern reactors is designed to withstand direct airplane hit, so without a bunker-buster grade munition such attack would not result in radiation release.