Nuclear startup Oklo gets thumbs-down from regulators

Re:Nuclear startup Oklo gets thumbs-down from regulators by sgjohnson on Friday January 14, 2022 @03:08PM (#29939639)

Fukushima currently has a body count of 1 and the city is perfectly habitable.

It was also basically the worst case scenario that could happen to that reactor design.

The tsunami and the earthquake killed 20000 for a scale.

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Re:Nuclear startup Oklo gets thumbs-down from regulators by tptacek on Saturday January 15, 2022 @03:49PM (#29950095)

Sure, I think that's true, but it was an event of such magnitude that there's a clear state interest in regulating against it! They had to evacuate a huge area around the disaster, for some time. Sure, it was a best-case scenario, but it was the best case of a worst case.

(I support nuclear power, for whatever that's worth. I think it's a good idea and we should do a lot more of it.)

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