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Does it make sense to build nuclear reactors when the environment we are engineering for them to exist in is rapidly changing? Fukushima showed us the drastic
by CTDOCodebases 4y ago
Does it make sense to build nuclear reactors when the environment we are engineering for them to exist in is rapidly changing?
Fukushima showed us the drastic and long lasting consequences of one little design oversight and that was in an environment the reactors where engineered for.
Personally I can't answer this question with the limited knowledge that I have. It seems like a catch 22 type situation.
- feet 4y agoThe consequences from pushing more carbon out are worse than one nuclear plant failure
- CTDOCodebases 4y agoSo are you saying that only one plant will fail out of the many we need to build and that our only option is to continue using hydrocarbons for energy? I'm tempted to be hopeful and say that nuclear will solve all our problems but seeing how the energy industry got us here in the first place I'm sceptical they have our best interests at heart.
- feet 4y agoBy energy industry do you mean oil and gas? Are they the ones building nuclear plants? Engineering improves over time, considering we seem to have someone who works in the industry in this thread perhaps they can inform us about current failure rates and risks. My assumption is that due to past failures, extra mitigations have been put into place with modern reactors.
- CTDOCodebases 4y ago> By energy industry do you mean oil and gas? Are they the ones building nuclear plants? Yes I was referring to oil and gas. While they are not the ones building nuclear power plants as we have seen when a particular part of the energy industry becomes entrenched it has a tendency to use its profits to change the narrative around its downsides.
- feet 4y agoThat's purely a problem of capitalism itself rather than any specific industry. If we nationalize power generation we should be able to avoid those problems.