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> They were bad, but just bad enough to roll over and give up on fission. Competent engineers are perfectly capable of maintaining a nuclear reactor, _technic
by markvdb 4y ago
> They were bad, but just bad enough to roll over and give up on fission.
Competent engineers are perfectly capable of maintaining a nuclear reactor, _technically_ speaking.
Large projects are vulnerable to all vices of human nature though. Idiots in manglement. Greedy people trying to squeeze out more profit. Terrorists. Maffiosi, whether running a country or not. Let's not forget that scale is not just about money or spatial dimensions, but also time...
We have a perfect example: Enerhodar, Ukraine. A working nuclear power plant is in the middle of a war zone right now.
- Banana699 4y agoThis still doesn't address GP's comparison to fossil. Fossil powerplants are no less vulnerable to all of those things you listed, and in fact they were indeed used in wars, from Saddam burning Kuwait's fields in 1991 to Houthi drones attacking Saudi fields more recently to Libyan civil war. None of that is used against fossil the same way it's used against nuclear.