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Re:Why are nuclear power construction costs so high? by ncmncm on Thursday June 09, 2022 @09:00PM (#31688802)
Point is that it is arbitrarily hard to tell whether a response is adaptive. Maladaptive responses are much cheaper than (unmentioned) alternatives, so are systematically more attractive to management.
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Re:Why are nuclear power construction costs so high? by otter-rock on Thursday June 09, 2022 @09:31PM (#31688961)
So nuclear engineers just aren't allowed to do their jobs, and the safety requirements were never good enough to begin with.
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Re:Why are nuclear power construction costs so high? by ncmncm on Friday June 10, 2022 @12:44AM (#31690144)
They certainly were not good enough at Fukushima, in a half-dozen particulars.

The next pile of reactors down the coast did not melt down, solely on the strength of a single engineer who succeeded, with enormous difficulty, in upholding standards management objected to, but that he knew were essential. Without him, there would now be two major uninhabitable areas there. He must have known Fukushima would melt down, and must have wanted it held to the same standard as his, but lacked authority to extend his standard so far.

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Re:Why are nuclear power construction costs so high? by otter-rock on Friday June 10, 2022 @08:38AM (#31693205)
> They certainly were not good enough at Fukushima

Then why would remaking the part be any better than redesigning the system?

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Re:Why are nuclear power construction costs so high? by ncmncm on Friday June 10, 2022 @09:58AM (#31694303)
Either course would produce uncompetitive power. The best would be stop pouring money into the rathole.
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Re:Why are nuclear power construction costs so high? by otter-rock on Friday June 10, 2022 @10:21AM (#31694606)
Ok, so the safety argument doesn't even matter, so why debate it as a proxy for what you really mean?
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Re:Why are nuclear power construction costs so high? by ncmncm on Friday June 10, 2022 @10:55AM (#31695083)
The safety argument is one of several good reasons to cancel. They do not contradict, but add.
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