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A comment on Fukushima Reactor: TEPCO robot aims to extract nuclear fuel. Parent comment
Pile up enough binary choices, each individually cheap as dirt, and you've got a large problem.
Even dirt in quantity gets expensive to manage: dams (earthen), mines, levees, landslides, etc.
Nukes are complex with variance conditions that are extreme to the extreme.
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Pile up enough binary choices, each individually cheap as dirt, and you've got a large problem.
Even dirt in quantity gets expensive to manage: dams (earthen), mines, levees, landslides, etc.
Nukes are complex with variance conditions that are extreme to the extreme.