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What you describe is true of the old style nuclear reactors (which, unfortunately, is all of them). I completely agree. But new reactor designs (thorium, etc.
by rsync 12y ago
What you describe is true of the old style nuclear reactors (which, unfortunately, is all of them). I completely agree.
But new reactor designs (thorium, etc.) avoid the black swans and all of the interdependent complexity. We should be deploying them.
- the_solution 12y agoNothing you say in the second sentence is true. Thorium reactors do not work reliably (just have a look at those that where actually built). The current designs do not work - we don't even have an idea how to do it right in theory. They absolutely are not less complex and are not in any way safer than any other nuclear reactors.