How do you make safe, cheap nuclear reactors? Bury them a mile deep

Re:How do you make safe, cheap nuclear reactors? Bury them a... by aguaviva on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @12:45PM (#41381433)

The basic messaging ("Nuclear power is good for me, but not for thee") is plainly and obviously inconsistent. I'm genuinely at a loss to understand why you would contest this.

The hypothesized messaging, that is. There's no evidence of such a propaganda campaign from Soviet side in those years (cover or overt), so this entire discussion is moot anyway.

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Re:How do you make safe, cheap nuclear reactors? Bury them a... by philwelch on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @05:06PM (#41384379)

It would be inconsistent if the Soviet Union took that line in their own public messaging, but no one is alleging that.

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Re:How do you make safe, cheap nuclear reactors? Bury them a... by aguaviva on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @06:50PM (#41385281)

There's no need to "allege" that they did. There was tons of propaganda to that effect in 1950s/1960s (just as there was in the U.S. at the time, though this has been largely forgotten). For example:

https://www.reddit.com/r/PropagandaPosters/comments/k4iggr/a...

It's also why the Chornobyl facility was officially named the V.I. Lenin Nuclear Power Plant, and so on.

The only thing they didn't do was "promote anti-nuclear propaganda in the West".

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Re:How do you make safe, cheap nuclear reactors? Bury them a... by philwelch on Thursday August 29, 2024 @12:32AM (#41387336)

Nobody is arguing that the Soviets were opposed to nuclear power in their own country. Why are you obsessed with attacking these idiotic straw men?

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Re:How do you make safe, cheap nuclear reactors? Bury them a... by aguaviva on Thursday August 29, 2024 @08:58AM (#41390347)

Nobody is arguing that ...

And no one said that they were, nor are they "attacking" that point of view.

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