What Is a Nuclear Microreactor?

Re:What Is a Nuclear Microreactor? by Dylan16807 on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @07:20PM (#27136416)

> There's a lot of opposition to this plan, as mentioned in the article.

The opinions of a couple politicians are not reliably based on reality.

The fishing association is not worried about danger, but about sales.

And greenpeace is not going to give an unbiased answer on anything nuclear.

Taken together, that gives me extremely little worry about danger. The fishermen might be right, I guess.

> It's possible to be upset by both.

It is! But if you're not MUCH more upset about coal's radiation release, something has gone wrong.

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Re:What Is a Nuclear Microreactor? by lwhi on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @07:27PM (#27136465)

I notice you didn't come back to me on my last point. Maybe that's something we can agree on ;)

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Re:What Is a Nuclear Microreactor? by Dylan16807 on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @07:39PM (#27136565)

I strongly expect to see zero major radiation releases from reactors that are generation III or later.

If we keep running very old reactors, I'm less confident. And I have not done sufficient research on "II+"

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Re:What Is a Nuclear Microreactor? by Ericson2314 on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @10:18PM (#27137703)

> If there isn't another nuclear accident in my lifetime, I'll be happy to say my concerns were unwarranted.

That might feel to you like a concession, point of compromise, but for us that's still a dangerously too high bar that puts the environment at risk.

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Re:What Is a Nuclear Microreactor? by lwhi on Thursday May 13, 2021 @03:53AM (#27139509)

That's the nub of my whole argument. I see nuclear energy via fission, as too a big risk.

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