Re:Bill Gates promises to add his own billions if Congress d...
by Tomte on Sunday January 27, 2019 @03:37AM
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> Make as many arguments you want to make about fukushima facing a natural disaster,
That's no excuse! In the end I don't care if the fission guys misestimated the natural disaster risk or whether they simply discarded it as "not in our threat model".
> and how the field has advanced since three-mile island and chernobyl,
But the old plants are still there!
And, tying it together with the first point: back then the fission guys promised it was safe and no catastrophe could happen.
Then the catastrophe happened.
Okay, but this time we have cool new technology, and we know so much more, and nothing bad can happen.
And then it happened.
Now we're just back in the cycle. Why should we believe you?
It's possible that it's now perfectly safe. But the fission guys lost all credibility when they again and again oversold what they really know, plan for and guarantee.
That's no excuse! In the end I don't care if the fission guys misestimated the natural disaster risk or whether they simply discarded it as "not in our threat model".
> and how the field has advanced since three-mile island and chernobyl,
But the old plants are still there!
And, tying it together with the first point: back then the fission guys promised it was safe and no catastrophe could happen.
Then the catastrophe happened.
Okay, but this time we have cool new technology, and we know so much more, and nothing bad can happen.
And then it happened.
Now we're just back in the cycle. Why should we believe you?
It's possible that it's now perfectly safe. But the fission guys lost all credibility when they again and again oversold what they really know, plan for and guarantee.