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My thinking has been that we need smaller decentralized nuclear plants, that can fail without it being cathastrofic, instead of huge centralized plants that "ca
by thomasahle 5y ago
My thinking has been that we need smaller decentralized nuclear plants, that can fail without it being cathastrofic, instead of huge centralized plants that "can't fail".
- markvdb 5y agoThat only makes for more, albeit smaller problems. Each of these is a potential dirty bomb.
- thomasahle 5y agoRight. It makes the size of the problem more transparent, by amortizing the accidents over time. We'd actually have some accidents sometimes. Either we'll get good at handling it, or we will give up on nuclear. Better than pooling all the risk, lowering the probability, but keeping the same expected destruction. With the centralized approach it's too easy to act like there's zero risk.