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> how modern reactors are so safe and if everything is done correctly then there is no problem nobody is making that claim, because it is clear that people mak
by sigstoat 5y ago
> how modern reactors are so safe and if everything is done correctly then there is no problem
nobody is making that claim, because it is clear that people make errors. this isn't some wild revelation to engineers that they've all missed.
rather, the claim is that modern reactor designers are safe(r) now _because_ they don't require everything be done right.
- Aachen 5y agoAnd because we have hundreds of running reactors, virtually all of them older generations than what we'd build today, and yet by statistics it's still one of the safest energy sources. Safety is just not a reason to reject fission energy.