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This definitely goes against the current narrative—nuclear power plants being shut down for no good reason. I wasn't aware of this type of corruption, but maybe
by noblewordsmith 4y ago
This definitely goes against the current narrative—nuclear power plants being shut down for no good reason. I wasn't aware of this type of corruption, but maybe someone with industry experience can speak to the gravity of this?
- j16sdiz 4y agoNuclear as a technology is mature. Nuclear as an industry involve too much politics, bureaucracy and very long term commitment.
- imtringued 4y agoI don't want mature power plants like Chernobyl or Fukushima.
- seanmcdirmid 4y agoThe big problem with nuclear plants is that disaster can happen when they are mismanaged, very focused compact in time and space disasters that sound much more scary to the general public than the more substantial long term problems caused by coal. So you don’t really want even light corruption involved in their operation (which happened in Japan). Just imagine what will happen when China runs a bunch of these plants… you got to really hope they’ve beat their corruption problem or the results won’t be pretty.