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In many European countries, these green parties gained a significant boost during first hand experience of failing nuclear power during the explosion of the Che
by nautilius 5y ago
In many European countries, these green parties gained a significant boost during first hand experience of failing nuclear power during the explosion of the Chernobyl plant.
- rootusrootus 5y agoChernobyl doesn't seem like a great example of failing nuclear power. It looks a lot more like crappy design and foolish incompetence.
- just_steve_h 5y agoYou literally just described most operating nuclear power stations. The GE Mark I reactors had an OPTIONAL system to vent hydrogen from secondary containment, as but one example.
- nautilius 5y agoI don't know, a nuclear power plant exploding and raining fallout all over Europe sure does look like a failure of nuclear power, certainly for those who experienced it.
- tarsinge 5y agoDam failures have had orders of magnitude more impacts, are we calling hydro power a failure?
- nautilius 5y agoLet’s not move the goalpost: I am pretty sure we’re calling a dam failure a dam failure.
- RealityVoid 5y agoYes, but if people hear about dams they don't even blink but they all lose their minds if they hear about nuclear. There is no goalpost moving here, just comparing risks and nuclear looks pretty good.
- nautilius 5y agorootusrootus says we shouldn't call Chernobyl an example of nuclear failure, but I think we very much should because it was a nuclear power plant that exploded. Now you ask 'what about dams' and I'll happily call failing dams failing dams. We were not comparing risks, that's what you brought in - moving the goalposts quite significantly while doing so.