Viewing a single comment thread. View all comments

LarryGumball t1_iruoysf wrote

Ah yes, the basically a bathtub with nuclear materials with almost no good design by the same people who gave them detectors that didn't even go to the level of the radiation, and the disaster of a 1960's tech reactor built in 1970's with a 9.0 that happens globally maybe 1-3 times ~ a century. Which was partly caused by generators running out of fuel, due to flooding.

Honestly a massive issue, however just like solar, nuclear has had massive improvements in both design efficiency and safety, which isn't surprising seeing as the designs being from nearly only 15 years from the first use of nuclear in the form of a bomb.. it's negative effects are indeed horrid but have caused less radioactive side effects than coal which contain radioactive isotopes.

People point to these and three mile island yet even so, the amount of death caused by them which again is using rather old designs is lower than that of the coal mining and burning that happens throughout the world.

Let alone the newer designs that are molten salt based and smaller scale, people maybe scared of them from the past, but still drive cars and use pressure cookers, one which is technically using small explosions to propel itself forward and the other a cooking device that if improperly handled/built is basically a bomb. But consistent design lessons have made both safe.

Only issue is you can't redesign a nuclear facility quickly, partly from design, and partly due to people being so against them.

Please have a open mind to technology that is still a great way to augment Solar/Wind/Geo/Dam based energies, since modern reactors can also bring energy generation up and down faster than before. They can be used when the winds not flowing and the suns hiding.

6