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Re:How do you make safe, cheap nuclear reactors? Bury them a... by Kon5ole on Tuesday August 27, 2024 @12:49PM (#41369698)
>Existing nuclear reactors are already extremely safe

The perceived safety is the result of being operated by highly trained and vetted personnel 24/7/365 for decades on end.

In actual fact nuclear reactors are extremely dangerous.

Re:How do you make safe, cheap nuclear reactors? Bury them a... by lnwlebjel on Tuesday August 27, 2024 @02:13PM (#41370841)
On thing I never see in these discussions is the toll on workers via radiation exposure. I worked at a nuclear plant in the 1990s and the exposure allowed to outage workers who worked six months a year was something like 5 REM, or 50yrs off radiation in 6 months. Are these deaths included in the statistics? It appears not - part of the issue undoubtedly is causal attribution to a cancer that occurs many years later. A cursory search of the literature suggests that not a lot of work has been done on this.
Re:How do you make safe, cheap nuclear reactors? Bury them a... by Vecr on Tuesday August 27, 2024 @03:09PM (#41371593)
Are you calculating under LNT (Linear No Threshold)? Otherwise unless the rate is spiky it might be fine.
Re:How do you make safe, cheap nuclear reactors? Bury them a... by chickenbig on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @02:35AM (#41376617)
You went from dose to questioning whether their deaths are included. Did you have knowledge that there were there an abnormal number of deaths among the outage workers?

5 Rem is 50 mSv; the Wikipedia Sievert page lists this as "U.S. 10 C.F.R. § 20.1201(a)(1)(i) occupational dose limit, total effective dose equivalent, and the global average background radiation dose is 2.4 mSv/a, so ~20 years worth of background radiation.

Re:How do you make safe, cheap nuclear reactors? Bury them a... by 7952 on Tuesday August 27, 2024 @01:13PM (#41370065)
And those personnel are really expensive.