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| Topic | So if all the nuclear-powered first world countries... |
| DarkTransient 06/10/18 9:25:29 PM #10: | booboy posted... I agree that modern designs are very safe and extremely efficient. My problem is that people will still be stupid enough to overpower every safety mechanism. If even Japan was a victim of corporate greed and cost-cutting at the nuclear level, then I can't really see trusting anyone else to not fuck it up. "Outdated design" was also a huge factor there. Newer designs are designed so that even a deliberate attempt to fuck things up, let alone negligence, is unlikely to do any damage to anything beyond the power plant itself. And if / when they finally have a successful nuclear fusion reactor design, that "unlikely" changes to "impossible". The risk of negligence / greed will always be there with existing plants (except very new ones). Nuclear plants cost a lot up front to set up; they become profitable because the ongoing costs are so cheap. But for that exact reason, it is unlikely an owner is going to dismantle an older but still functional design to replace it with a new one, until it reaches the age where it needs replacement (or extremely high-cost repair) anyway. But it will not be so much of an issue for new plants that are built going forward, unless for whatever reason older designs are deliberately used. --- ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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