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I'm pro-nuclear power, for the time being. What worries me is that we need to have MTBF go down as the number of plants go up, otherwise we're making planet-wi
by tommiegannert 5y ago
I'm pro-nuclear power, for the time being.
What worries me is that we need to have MTBF go down as the number of plants go up, otherwise we're making planet-wide safety worse. And I'm expecting full-system MTBF to be really hard to measure, let alone guarantee improvements on. Hence, I'm going to assume we're on path to making nuclear power riskier by scaling it up.
We've only been splitting atoms for a hundred years. It's very unlikely that we've seen the worst-ever accident yet, or the last bomb ever dropped. I have no idea what to do with this feeling, but I am happy my time on Earth is bounded.