Experts Urge U.S. To Continue Support for Nuclear Fusion Research

Re:Experts Urge U.S. To Continue Support for Nuclear Fusion ... by Dylan16807 on Saturday December 15, 2018 @03:14AM (#18687600)

NIMBY doesn't automatically imply poorest.

Regardless, I volunteer for the danger zone. The 99% worst case is merely evacuation, and expensive power plants pay for lots of nice thing with their taxes.

Also insurance is a perfectly viable way to spread out risk so that no group of people is disadvantaged.

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Re:Experts Urge U.S. To Continue Support for Nuclear Fusion ... by natmaka on Sunday December 16, 2018 @07:06AM (#18692757)

The fact that you are not in NIMBY is possible, your arguments, albeit debatable (no insurance company offers any policy related to large-scale nuke risk), are acceptable, but nonetheless you sit in a tiny minority thinking this way. AFAIK everywhere the majority is stuck in NIMBY mode.

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Re:Experts Urge U.S. To Continue Support for Nuclear Fusion ... by Dylan16807 on Sunday December 16, 2018 @05:16PM (#18695593)

If you were going to make a thousand power plants, I bet you could easily create such an insurance.

But people are always going to be unrealistic about risk. So I dunno, ask people if they accept a tiny chance of localized disaster, and then ignore everything they say about their own location.

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