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0 pointstrhway11y ago0 comments

>insisted the filters be installed.

having good engineers who are not afraid to push for the right solution as well as the environment where such push is possible is the "super-duper strategy". Compare that to the Feynman report on Challenger.

>Just remember everybody: nuclear power is super safe!

we don't have an alternative (solar and wind aren't alternatives, just stop-gap measures to buy us some time). Technological civilization goes only one direction. Once Cro-Magnon discovered bow+arrow, he killed off Neanderthals and mammoths. Once Cro-Magnon discovered fission ... The only question here is whether we discover the way to harness aneutronic fusion in time before the fission (incl. safe at first look ones like thorium based) and neutronic fusion result in the amount of nuclear waste and disasters seriously affecting the existence of the civilization itself. If only instead of anti-nuclear "fear spreading" propaganda there were pro-fusion research investment "educational" propaganda ...

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x0x011y ago

yeah, the engineers didn't push for the right solution. That would have been apparent had, say, you read the quote. That I put in the comment. So you didn't even have to read the article.

as for your fear-spreading propaganda, in the real world, we've had a series of nuclear accidents that mostly haven't been much worse because of luck. Idiots think luck is a viable safety strategy. The rest of us -- post 3 mile island, post japan -- think the safety record is, charitably, checkered.

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