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Re:Fire extinguished at Ukraine nuclear power plant, Europe'... by thomasahle on Friday March 04, 2022 @02:26AM (#30551714)
My thinking has been that we need smaller decentralized nuclear plants, that can fail without it being cathastrofic, instead of huge centralized plants that "can't fail".
Re:Fire extinguished at Ukraine nuclear power plant, Europe'... by markvdb on Friday March 04, 2022 @03:30AM (#30552115)
That only makes for more, albeit smaller problems. Each of these is a potential dirty bomb.
Re:Fire extinguished at Ukraine nuclear power plant, Europe'... by thomasahle on Friday March 04, 2022 @01:06PM (#30558178)
Right. It makes the size of the problem more transparent, by amortizing the accidents over time.

We'd actually have some accidents sometimes. Either we'll get good at handling it, or we will give up on nuclear. Better than pooling all the risk, lowering the probability, but keeping the same expected destruction. With the centralized approach it's too easy to act like there's zero risk.