Re:U.S. Nuclear Comeback Stalls as Two Reactors Are Abandoned
by marze on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @11:13AM
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It is easy to talk software developers into nuclear. In the software world, if you have bugs, you fix them in the next patch, as they are discovered.
In the nuclear reactor engineering world, a failure (as the result of a single bug or engineering oversight) can result in a 60 year clean up project, make $100B in farmland unusable, and other problematic outcomes.
It is difficult to comprehend the sheer magnitude of difference.
In the nuclear reactor engineering world, a failure (as the result of a single bug or engineering oversight) can result in a 60 year clean up project, make $100B in farmland unusable, and other problematic outcomes.
It is difficult to comprehend the sheer magnitude of difference.