Re:White House eyes subsidies for nuclear plants to help mee...
by tlb on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @12:09PM
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Another way of setting a limit on radiation would be: 1/10 as much as an average coal plant per kWh. Current nuclear plants are already below this, because coal plants release a fair bit of radioactive material into the air, from trace elements like thorium in coal.
When regulations prevent deploying something 10x safer than the currently deployed alternatives, they're not making us safer.
Re:White House eyes subsidies for nuclear plants to help mee...
by pfdietz on Saturday May 08, 2021 @07:55AM
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Nuclear plants may be below this in normal operation, but what matters is the dose in accident scenarios. That's what drives things like containment buildings, which are large and expensive.
Setting a firm limit on radiation release ahead of time, rather than one based on economics like ALARA just seems like it would be far safer. The other examples also seem like they are bad regulations that don't help safety or construction either. Would be great to see if they could result in more efficient construction.