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Re:To Slow Global Warming, We Need Nuclear Power (Op-Ed) by underrun on Wednesday December 21, 2016 @11:45PM (#13234891)
The advantages of advancing technology and building smaller safer reactors would go a long way to avoiding such disasters. Because things can go wrong is not a reason to stop research into making them better and safer. The real way to keep ahead of this is not to extend the life span of existing reactors but to build aggressively in order to take older ones offline as newer smaller safer reactors are ready.

And keep doing that.

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Re:To Slow Global Warming, We Need Nuclear Power (Op-Ed) by MichaelApproved on Thursday December 22, 2016 @01:51AM (#13235412)
Iterating aggressively is great when the consequences aren't as dire as nuclear mistakes.

The last thing I'd want is more plants built aggressively when stupid mistakes happen at the non-aggressive rate, such as installing the reactor backwards.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Onofre_Nuclear_Generating_...

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Re:To Slow Global Warming, We Need Nuclear Power (Op-Ed) by shawn-furyan on Thursday December 22, 2016 @12:30PM (#13238780)
+1

Design is not actualization.

So the salient question becomes:

How robust are modern reactor designs to manufacturing/construction/installation/etc. errors?

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