Re:The New Atomic Age We Need
by pdonis on Saturday November 28, 2015 @08:31PM
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> Nuclear safety is not to be taken lightly.
Safety in general is not to be taken lightly. But we should assess the relative safety of different technologies fairly. We don't do that with nuclear; we hold it to standards far higher than the ones we enforce for other technologies, even though those other technologies have killed orders of magnitude more people. That is not rational.
> this stuff is hard, really hard, and it's getting harder over time as more failure scenarios are known.
This could be said of any technology. But again, we hold nuclear to far higher standards than we do other technologies that have failure scenarios which have already killed orders of magnitude more people.
Safety in general is not to be taken lightly. But we should assess the relative safety of different technologies fairly. We don't do that with nuclear; we hold it to standards far higher than the ones we enforce for other technologies, even though those other technologies have killed orders of magnitude more people. That is not rational.
> this stuff is hard, really hard, and it's getting harder over time as more failure scenarios are known.
This could be said of any technology. But again, we hold nuclear to far higher standards than we do other technologies that have failure scenarios which have already killed orders of magnitude more people.