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That's why companies cannot be allowed to run a nuclear power plant. A place where negligence has no place.
by sebazzz 4y ago
That's why companies cannot be allowed to run a nuclear power plant. A place where negligence has no place.
- abfan1127 4y agocan you point out a human organization not susceptible to negligence?
- jraph 4y agoThere's a question of motivation. A public service ought to be motivated to deliver a good service. It won't be motivated by taking shortcuts. A private company seeks profit and cannot afford to lose money, contrary to a public service which can be not profitable. Offering a good service it a means to be profitable but that's not the end goal, even if many people actually want to do good work. Of course there's a big if. IF the government throws enough money at it. This IF is unfortunately too often "IF only". If not, we are back to shortcuts.
- stickfigure 4y agoThe service I get from AAA's DMV services is far superior to the service I get from the DMV itself.
- Am4TIfIsER0ppos 4y agobureaucrats and civil servants get paid regardless of how shit they do their jobs because the government puts a gun to your head to pay their wages and consume whatever service they provide (also applies to some "private" companies)
- notch898a 4y agoThey should be run by an entity devoid of negligence, like the US government.
- quorgs 4y agoCan't disagree but The Ministry of Medium Machine-Building Industry of the USSR wasn't exactly driven by profit motive and we still got Chernobyl.
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- nebula8804 4y agoWe got Chernobyl because there wasn't transparency. The flaw that caused the explosion was known to the USSR but it was covered up and a correction to existing reactors in production was not implemented until after it became impossible to ignore. The same would be happening to production reactors here in the US if it weren't for the strict government regulations that ensured that no western reactors could be built the way Chernobyl was (no containment building, graphite moderation etc.). This regulation is forcing transparency in design.
- sebazzz 4y agoThat's true, but money saving did result in the lack of a proper containment building.
- emptybits 4y agohttps://www.nei.org/resources/statistics/us-nuclear-plant-owners-and-operators https://www.nei.org/resources/statistics/us-nuclear-plant-ow...