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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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