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Either you're trolling or you've actually just compared the state of software engineering (let's be fair, it's not engineering, but application development) wit
by eigenrick 6y ago
Either you're trolling or you've actually just compared the state of software engineering (let's be fair, it's not engineering, but application development) with real engineering disciplines.
Unlike software, people actually take engineering projects, especially those that risk public health, very seriously.
Of course every aspect of these systems, in whole and in part, have been tested exhaustively.
There are a number of things that can be proven about nuclear power plants. Millions of man hours have gone into their research and design. They are rigorously monitored and controlled. Their emissions in every form is highly regulated. If one is within 3 decades of failure, we'd know it.
When engineers and scientists say that there isn't a single power plant that is going to fail in the next 40 years. It's not a guess.
- jakear 6y agoWhat was the point in time between when the existing myriad failing/failed nuclear installations were designed and now that the engineers started taking risk to public health seriously, testing every component exhaustively, and putting lots of hours in to research and design? > If one is within 3 decades of failure, we'd know it > When engineers and scientists say that there isn't a single power plant that is going to fail in the next 40 years. It's not a guess. Why didn't we know it about Fukushima? Things happen beyond the control of man, to make claims like the above is impossible.
- eigenrick 6y agoFair enough. Fukushima is a good example of a system with multiple, redundant safeguards that were violated pretty much simultaneously. They've ruled that it was preventable, however. It's become a case study and spawned new audit and safeguard procedures. I'm not going to guarantee that nuclear is the safest power source until the end of time. But at present, it is, actually. https://www.statista.com/statistics/494425/death-rate-worldwide-by-energy-source/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/494425/death-rate-worldw...