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We have BSL level 4 and people don't often prick themselves. Wuhan Institute of Virology was BSL level 4, and yet here we are. People aren’t perfect. Accident

We have BSL level 4 and people don't often prick themselves. Wuhan Institute of Virology was BSL level 4, and yet here we are. People aren’t perfect. Accidents happen.

edmcnulty101 5y ago
The chance of an airline accident is 1 in 16 million. 441 nuclear reactors have been operating flawlessly for over a decade. Countless biology labs deal with dangerous pathogens daily with minimal accidents. This French lab from the article had two separate accidents in three years. I dislike when people use the term 'accidents happen' in a hand wavy way. There's a whole world of risk calculations to determine if something is safe or not.
- PhantomGremlin 5y ago
  441 nuclear reactors have been operating flawlessly for over a decade. Fascinating choice of timeframe: "over a decade". How about going back just one more year. We can find multiple nuclear reactors blowing themselves up quite spectacularly on TV: Over the following three weeks there was evidence of partial nuclear meltdowns in units 1, 2 and 3: visible explosions, suspected to be caused by hydrogen gas, in units 1 and 3; a suspected explosion in unit 2, that may have damaged the primary containment vessel; and a possible uncovering of the Spent fuel pools in Units 1, 3 and 4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_Daiichi_Nuclear_Power_Plant#Nuclear_disaster_of_March_11,_2011 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_Daiichi_Nuclear_Powe... Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you enjoy the play?
  - edmcnulty101 5y ago
    you're missing my entire point. I never said that nuclear reactors don't have problems I would be an idiot to say that. Everyone on Earth knows nuclear reactors have problems. Statistically though it's a very very unlikely. What it sounded like you were saying is that because human error exists....we should shut down all nuclear reactors and biology labs. I don't agree with that.

We have BSL level 4 and people don't often prick themselves. Wuhan Institute of Virology was BSL level 4, and yet here we are. People aren’t perfect. Accidents happen.

edmcnulty101 5y ago

The chance of an airline accident is 1 in 16 million. 441 nuclear reactors have been operating flawlessly for over a decade. Countless biology labs deal with dangerous pathogens daily with minimal accidents. This French lab from the article had two separate accidents in three years. I dislike when people use the term 'accidents happen' in a hand wavy way. There's a whole world of risk calculations to determine if something is safe or not.

PhantomGremlin 5y ago
441 nuclear reactors have been operating flawlessly for over a decade. Fascinating choice of timeframe: "over a decade". How about going back just one more year. We can find multiple nuclear reactors blowing themselves up quite spectacularly on TV: Over the following three weeks there was evidence of partial nuclear meltdowns in units 1, 2 and 3: visible explosions, suspected to be caused by hydrogen gas, in units 1 and 3; a suspected explosion in unit 2, that may have damaged the primary containment vessel; and a possible uncovering of the Spent fuel pools in Units 1, 3 and 4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_Daiichi_Nuclear_Power_Plant#Nuclear_disaster_of_March_11,_2011 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_Daiichi_Nuclear_Powe... Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you enjoy the play?
- edmcnulty101 5y ago
  you're missing my entire point. I never said that nuclear reactors don't have problems I would be an idiot to say that. Everyone on Earth knows nuclear reactors have problems. Statistically though it's a very very unlikely. What it sounded like you were saying is that because human error exists....we should shut down all nuclear reactors and biology labs. I don't agree with that.