shitty operational management will continue to be shitty, because people are people, and as locked down as you try to make nuclear fission, and nuclear waste, there will always be budgetary concerns edging the safety concerns. no terrestrial nuclear, no issue. that's my position and i'm sticking to it.
Exactly. Building nuclear power plants in the 80s should’ve been the way humanity went. Now, advancements in batteries (Sodium ion for example) and established supply chains means that solar/wind + batteries is the way to go.
I don’t agree with ur safety take on nuclear energy though. All nuclear energy accidents were the result of shitty operational management who were warned waaaay before. It’s like airlines in the 60s, where safety standards were hilariously bad. Now, with extremely stringent regulations, we can solve the safety issues.
downpunxx@fedia.io 2 months ago
pedz@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Just wanna add that storing energy can also be done in other forms than electricity. For example, pump water up a hill with solar energy during daytime, and use turbines and gravity during the night
UraniumBlazer@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Those forms of energy storage r very location dependent and also quite cost inefficient. Chemical batteries make sense almost everywhere. The only problem is shitty Lithium. Replacing it with sodium ion kinda solves all problems.
kaffiene@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Japan has high safety standards
Omodi@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Nobody died at Fukushima and it was an outdated designed reactor that needed to be retrofitted.
kaffiene@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You stated that all nuclear a accidents were the fault of lax standards. I gave you a counter example.
Sweetshark@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Shitty operational management is systemic in organisations that operate huge centralized systems though. see: normal accidents accidents
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_Accidents
UraniumBlazer@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I would disagree. Take a look at airplanes for instance. Good safety policy measures and enforcement can make seemingly high risk operations incredibly safe. Take a look at French nuclear reactors for example. Good nuclear safety policies, hence no accidents.
marcos@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Those things that Boeing builds?
UraniumBlazer@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Less people die on airplanes than other modes of transport. So yeah, that’s the level of safety despite Boeing’s bullshit.