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This is why I think nuclear power is a bad idea. Paying back a multibillion dollar investment takes decades. Operating costs eat into profits. The financial inc
by more_corn 2y ago
This is why I think nuclear power is a bad idea. Paying back a multibillion dollar investment takes decades. Operating costs eat into profits.
The financial incentive is to run them as cheaply as possible for as long as possible. In a place where there’s a strong work ethic and good maintenance history that might be fine.
Look around at your infrastructure before climbing on the nuclear bandwagon.
- samatman 2y agoA better comparison for nuclear power is the airplane industry. No one goes into the bridge running plant every day and runs the bridge for a living, with several people assigned to run a daily checklist on said bridge. But it's still not a very good comparison, because airplanes, due to their very nature, can't be designed to fail safe. Nuclear power plants can.