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> If you get an irresponsible government or power company that cheaps out in 30 years, oopsies, you're going to irradiate the local area. How many times did t

> If you get an irresponsible government or power company that cheaps out in 30 years, oopsies, you're going to irradiate the local area. How many times did this happen in 80 years? according to [1] not many times. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_nuclear_disasters_and_radioactive_incidents https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_nuclear_disasters_and... And this is including very early technology and government (e.g. the Russian one) that I wouldn't trust with anything.

klooney 2y ago
Sure, but this is HN, and we get a lot of The Case For Nuclear Power articles coming through, and startups building micro reactors that everyone thinks are very cool- me too, honestly- but I think that the case against gets given short shrift, or can turned into a strawman. The consequences of a nuclear incident are very high, and can be more or less permanent for an area. It's a lot to ask for a technology to be absolutely resilient to mismanagement or even sabotage.
- troupo 2y ago
  > The consequences of a nuclear incident are very high, and can be more or less permanent for an area. It's a lot to ask for a technology to be absolutely resilient to mismanagement or even sabotage. Now apply this logic to many other power sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Banqiao_Dam_failure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Banqiao_Dam_failure