Comment on First planned small nuclear reactor plant in the US has been canceled
PeterPoopshit@lemmy.world 10 months agoI was talking about the one that exploded in Idaho. It was a “small” reactor. Thr control rods were moved by hand.
Clearly there was nothing they could have done to avoid human error /s
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Lol I wasn’t familiar with that one.
But my point was that even the big ones that have had big failures were caused by dumb shit that was entirely avoidable. All three of the famous ones could be designed away in new reactors.
Meowoem@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
The problem I have is these problems are all caused by corner cutting and yes we could live in fantasy world where corporations don’t cut corners to save money and will just keep pouring money into a pit just to be safe even when they’re already losing money hand over fist due to not being able to compete with kWh pricing from renewables - but we don’t live in that world.
We’ll end up with minimum wage staff working without proper training, safety systems turned off because they’re too expensive to repair, and leaks not reported because company policy is broken. They’re going to be run by the same companies the are dumping oil into the Niger Delta for the last however many decades simply because it’s cheaper than fixing the issue - putting faith that ‘we’ll do it properly this time’ is incredibly dumb based on the near limitless examples of that never happening.