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Uninformed conjecture here, but, should nuclear power be a private industry? Where the incentive is profit? Could it be a Government Utility, where the incent
by jasonjayr 6y ago
Uninformed conjecture here, but, should nuclear power be a private industry? Where the incentive is profit?
Could it be a Government Utility, where the incentive can be safety above all else?
- rbanffy 6y agoWill it be cost effective then? It's already pretty marginal.
- nobodyandproud 6y agoHow expensive are highways?
- jasonjayr 6y agoI thought that the costs come mostly from insurance? (Which the public is already on the hook for to some degree) There are an lot of industry where they are not cost effective without heavy government involvement, and even then the public barely get to reap the rewards. (Though I supposed if this happened in the USA it would be the death knell of the fossil fuel industry)
- codeyperson 6y agoWhat about the opportunity cost of having a planet to live on?
- rbanffy 6y agoYou can have that with renewables, at a much lower cost.
- toyg 6y agoDifferent incentive structure in Chernobyl; still fucked up. Given a large enough number of chances, people will fuck up. The fallout from nuclear fuckups is just too big to risk it.
- rbanffy 6y agoAnd the number of opportunities to fuck up is mindblowingly high. A lot of nuclear accidents start with accidents on support systems that cascade into other systems up to the point the reactor can't be safely operated.