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So yes three accidents in the last 60 years (I counted nuclear power to really start in the 1960s) that's an accident every 20 years like I wrote. Considering t
by cycomanic 5y ago
So yes three accidents in the last 60 years (I counted nuclear power to really start in the 1960s) that's an accident every 20 years like I wrote. Considering that chernobyl and fukushima rendered large areas of land uninhabitable I don't consider that a good track record. The lucky thing so far was that none of the incidents happened to a plant close to a large city. If a fukushima would have happened at Krümmel for example, Hamburg a city of 2M would have had to be evacuated.
- DennisP 5y agoTaking a simple average like that implicitly assumes that nuclear technology has not improved in sixty years, and that we've refused even to learn simple lessons like "put a containment dome around your reactor." This is manifestly not the case.