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And numerous more. [0x0] Plus nuclear power was never found to be cost-effective. Maybe this decade. I understand reactors will be more uniform in new design

• qsort 5y ago
  I'm not making an argument as to whether nuclear energy is good or bad, cost effective or not. My prior on that is "it depends", but I don't know much about it, so it's a rather weakly informative prior. I was specifically addressing parent's point. Chernobyl had a disproportionate effect on the public perception of the matter. I hadn't even heard of half the disasters in that list, for instance.
  • amanaplanacanal 5y ago
    Not on that list is the Three Mile Island accident that happened almost simultaneously with the release of the movie "The China Syndrome", seven years before Chernobyl. In the US at least, I suspect that was very influential.
    • pfdietz 5y ago
      More consequential was the passage in 1978 of PURPA. With PURPA, the grids began to be opened to non-utility competition -- and this was cheaper than utility nuclear plants. Initially it was mostly just cogeneration, or at least things that were nominally cogeneration, but mostly run to make power to sell to the grid. But this (and the cessation of the growth in electric demand) ruined the case for new utility nuclear plants.