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Re:How do you make safe, cheap nuclear reactors? Bury them a... by xattt on Tuesday August 27, 2024 @01:34PM (#41370341)
Some of the things in the world may never be known for certain. The layman can look at the constellation of factors that lead up to an event.

The NKVD/KGB/FSB was and continues to be known to engage in kneecapping actions in enemy states. Many Northern nations were kindled into taking an anti-nuclear stance. It is taking a lot of initiative for Northern Europe to extricate itself from dependence on Russian natural gas. Russia used natural gas control as retaliation following sanctions.

Occam’s Razor would suggest these things are linked.

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Re:How do you make safe, cheap nuclear reactors? Bury them a... by ClumsyPilot on Tuesday August 27, 2024 @01:47PM (#41370502)
I think it is more productive to examine our failures than to blame all faults on a distant enemy
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Re:How do you make safe, cheap nuclear reactors? Bury them a... by nosianu on Tuesday August 27, 2024 @02:56PM (#41371387)
That is inconvenient. You could change your own organization, and nobody wants that. Much better to defend each and every problem on your own side as a distraction and that acknowledging your side's issues would only help the other side, and to concentrate on pointing out what others do wrong. That way you have zero responsibility to actually change anything.
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Re:How do you make safe, cheap nuclear reactors? Bury them a... by xattt on Tuesday August 27, 2024 @08:13PM (#41374702)
Why not both: recognize one’s own shortcomings but engage in critical thinking around geopolitics?
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Re:How do you make safe, cheap nuclear reactors? Bury them a... by aguaviva on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @07:19AM (#41378292)
Given the incredibly organic nature of anti-nuclear (power) sentiment during its heyday (the 70s-80s), when everyone was freaked out over TMI and Chornobyl; and the fact that so far, there've been no "revelations" of the Soviets or their latter counterparts having funded or infiltrated any of these groups (apart from attempting to influence the disarmament issue) --

Occam's Razor would seem to cut the other way, actually.

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