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Re:How do you make safe, cheap nuclear reactors? Bury them a... by honestjohn on Tuesday August 27, 2024 @07:43PM (#41374491)
I know newer reactor designs are much safer than Chernobyl at least, but they haven't solved the problem of some people having inflated egos.
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Re:How do you make safe, cheap nuclear reactors? Bury them a... by littlestymaar on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @03:00AM (#41376749)
That's exactly my point about it not being an engineering problem: you can't solve it with reactor design.

But it has been addressed with governance rules, in my country's power plant the guy responsible for safety is hierarchically independent from the guy responsible for running the plant so the later cannot command the former and let his hubris destroy the plant.

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