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That's a weird paper.. no mention of Chernobyl, Three-Mile Island or any of the other major meltdowns or near catastrophes in the 1970s/1980s. Perhaps the chea
by mikeyouse 5y ago
That's a weird paper.. no mention of Chernobyl, Three-Mile Island or any of the other major meltdowns or near catastrophes in the 1970s/1980s.
Perhaps the cheaper generation of nuclear plants were inherently unsafe, hence the more expensive costs going forward, necessitating a new learning curve as we "overbuilt" the plants to avoid thousand-square mile exclusion zones?
- roenxi 5y agoEven taking that on as a given (which, I mean, yeah pretty reasonable to tighten standards) ... that should be a step change as new standards are bought in, not a linear uptrend. Then the downwards sloping learning curve should resume.