Re:Nuclear should be considered part of clean energy standar...
by kragen on Friday April 02, 2021 @05:36PM
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Anti-nuclear activists aren't my opponents. They're the opponents of Amiga fans. You know. The people I'm making fun of.
> There are legitimate concerns against nuclear:
Yeah, I agree. There were legitimate reasons not to buy an Amiga, too: it was expensive, it didn't run WordPerfect or Microsoft Flight Simulator, and then it stagnated. Probably 20 or 10 years ago the legitimate reasons not to use nuclear were less important than global warming.
Now they're irrelevant because nobody is going to use nuclear anyway except for things like submarines because it's too expensive.
> Chernobyl and Fukushima haven’t been predicted
Hmm, are you suggesting (non-gas-cooled) US and UK reactors were designed with a negative void coefficient without knowing that this was a safety feature? I think that in fact Chernobyl was predicted but happened anyway. Similarly the power company at Fukushima was found guilty of predicting the problem and then not preventing it.
> There are legitimate concerns against nuclear:
Yeah, I agree. There were legitimate reasons not to buy an Amiga, too: it was expensive, it didn't run WordPerfect or Microsoft Flight Simulator, and then it stagnated. Probably 20 or 10 years ago the legitimate reasons not to use nuclear were less important than global warming.
Now they're irrelevant because nobody is going to use nuclear anyway except for things like submarines because it's too expensive.
> Chernobyl and Fukushima haven’t been predicted
Hmm, are you suggesting (non-gas-cooled) US and UK reactors were designed with a negative void coefficient without knowing that this was a safety feature? I think that in fact Chernobyl was predicted but happened anyway. Similarly the power company at Fukushima was found guilty of predicting the problem and then not preventing it.