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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
by 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 ago441 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 agoyou'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.