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Risk doesn’t exist in a vacuum. Current levels of risk mitigation makes nuclear uncompetitive without large subsidies. Arguing to make nuclear less safe is dif
by Retric 1y ago
Risk doesn’t exist in a vacuum. Current levels of risk mitigation makes nuclear uncompetitive without large subsidies. Arguing to make nuclear less safe is difficult.
Self driving has a similar issue where the value shrinks the more supervision it requires. Tesla is a new benefit in terms of effort but it can’t operate safely while the driver is asleep.
- philipallstar 1y ago> Current levels of risk mitigation I think that's by broad policy and not by individual risk mitigation. Isn't it something like "if nuclear is cheaper than the average then it has to spend the difference on risk mitigation"?
- Retric 1y agoNot really what I’m talking about. There’s quite a lot spent to avoid known failures and little way to know what the minimum they can get away with. 3 mile island wasn’t a public health hazard but lack of maintenance cost billions by destroying the reactor. Thus prompting the industry to spend significantly more money on maintaining reactors. The problem is it’s really difficult to determine what’s overkill here. There’s something like 600,000 US bridges and sometimes people look a failure and say it’s rare enough not to be worth doing anything about.