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Re:Japan to invest on nuclear energy in major policy shift by killjoywashere on Thursday December 22, 2022 @11:31AM (#34095151)
Agree. I majored in physics with the plan of working on reactor plants. Not how the cards played out, but I still got the degree and have seen reactor operations up close for years.

My general position is that even if many more people die installing rooftop solar and wind turbines, just falling off roofs and ladders, it's a better plan, politically, than nuclear. Not that nuclear can't be done safely, but that even done safely, the optics of single-point failures, which will happen, are so bad that nuclear becomes political loser. Just build more wind and solar and the distribution infrastructure to move it around.

Re:Japan to invest on nuclear energy in major policy shift by zzzeek on Thursday December 22, 2022 @11:59AM (#34095534)
the people who were just denied damages from a court in Japan aren't "optics". They are real people, harmed, denied justice. Due to nuclear being just too big a fish to catch for an institution like Japans' nuclear industry and too big to admit it by their judicial branch.
Re:Japan to invest on nuclear energy in major policy shift by panick21_ on Thursday December 22, 2022 @07:16PM (#34100775)
So your argument is basically, humanity is to stupid for nuclear. That's pretty depressing.
Re:Japan to invest on nuclear energy in major policy shift by moloch-hai on Thursday December 22, 2022 @09:10PM (#34101578)
Be depressed if that is what it takes for the message to penetrate.