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I am surprised that a community like HN where a large percentage consists of developers is so positive about a nuclear power plant. One bug could lead to sever

I am surprised that a community like HN where a large percentage consists of developers is so positive about a nuclear power plant. One bug could lead to severe damage to everything and everyone around a nuclear power plant. We see those kind of bugs on the front page daily. In my opinion it is absolutely irresponsible to start them up in the first. I have seen too much to actually trust in people always getting their shit right.

FabHK 5mo ago
We can engineer planes to function extremely reliably. And power plants operate in more predictable environments than planes.
Moldoteck 5mo ago
Maybe because we can also check data, like https://ourworldindata.org/safest-sources-of-energy https://ourworldindata.org/safest-sources-of-energy https://ourworldindata.org/low-carbon-technologies-need-far-less-mining-fossil-fuels https://ourworldindata.org/low-carbon-technologies-need-far-... https://docs.nrel.gov/docs/fy21osti/80580.pdf https://docs.nrel.gov/docs/fy21osti/80580.pdf https://unece.org/sites/default/files/2022-04/LCA_3_FINAL%20March%202022.pdf https://unece.org/sites/default/files/2022-04/LCA_3_FINAL%20... https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Electricity_price_statistics https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php... Or just looking at the cost of entire french fleet per court of auditors vs german EEG fund alone?