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31 sats \ 4 replies \ @k00b OP 2 Jan \ parent \ on: Utah, Texas, and SMR maker are suing NRC over small nuclear reactor regulations Politics_And_Law

It seems like it has the potential to be the most practical non-fossil fuel energy source, but I’m no expert on this stuff. Great powers just cause great fears.

11 sats \ 3 replies \ @Satosora 2 Jan

We have had some meltdowns that create that fear. Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and Fukushima. There is cause to be alarmed, but I feel our technology and understanding has gotten a lot better. Im sure there will be new sources where we can harvest energy in the future. Fission is a possibility.

10 sats \ 2 replies \ @Bell_curve 2 Jan

Chernobyl was incompetence. Three Mile Island was also human error but not as bad.

Fukushima was bad luck from a tsunami and some errors in modeling future disaster scenarios.

11 sats \ 1 reply \ @Satosora 2 Jan

Chernobyl was an early reactor. Even though there were safeties in place, they werent able to change the situation. Nuclear energy can be dangerous in the wrong hands. Hence why these situations happened.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bell_curve 2 Jan

Chernobyl was the epitome of dysfuntion in the Soviet Union during the 1970s and 80s. Everything was falling apart. Nothing was working the way it was supposed to. Every citizen and resident knew that something was broken and needed to be fixed. This level of Soviet dysfuntion was unsustainable.

Chernobyl disaster was 1986. Gorbachev was 'elected' as 'leader' in 1985 as the young face that would revitalize USSR. Berlin Wall fell in 1989.

Chernobyl disaster was a harbinger of collapse in hindsight.